The bookstore person (writer of the article) is a woman, I believe. Tho I totally admire her fight to protect the book (and run down the thieves), I did get the impression that all the thieves were guys, and there was an undercurrent of hostility toward the potential for evil lurking in all us (men) as such, thieves or not, including the security guard (caught masturbating in the children's book section) in the corporate chain for which she worked. It's curious that more guys (no doubt) go after the books and not women. Women, some who I have known, go after clothes and cosmetics. As a father of a daughter, the price of women's clothes in comparison to those for men, is in itself provocation for theft - of which I still do not approve.
My gut always recoils at separatist righteousness of any sort, particularly my own!
Stephen
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Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Well, yeah, but in my role as a member of a small press, I love the
Independents (hate the big boxes & never shop there), so I feel for
this guy (& did not know about this particular situation; maybe in our
cold climate it doesnt happen as much).
Doug
On 9-Mar-08, at 9:25 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
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