Excellent Points as Always, Misogynists!

So, an independent, feminist, woman-owned bookstore in Cleveland, Ohio, "has made a graphic illustration of the position of female writers by [turning] the spines and covers of books by men to face the wall in the shop's 10,000-title fiction section," thus leaving visible only the spines of books authored by women for Women's History Month.

"In essence [we are] not just highlighting the disparity but bringing more focus to the women's books now, because they're the only ones legible on the shelf," [Harriett Logan, the bookstore's founder and owner said]. She added that although she had conceived the display to make a point, when completed it had an even stronger impact than she had expected.

...Loganberry is a feminist bookshop that retails new, used and rare books with an emphasis on women's history and literature. The move is intended to be a conspicuous illustration of the current representation of women in print.

Sounds very effective!

Naturally, some of the responses to Loganberry's move have been amazing. And by "amazing," I mean "totally predictable and absurd."

However, not all reactions were positive, with complaints that Logan should be running a "men's history month" to balance the promotion, and that the display was not about women's voices, but about "hating men."

Editor and writing coach John Ettorre tweeted: "Simply unbelievable. Promoting women's voices by symbolically silencing men's. By an independent bookstore! Shame on you, Harriett." He added: "Did they settle on this path after deciding burning books by men was just too over the top? I'm stunned."

He's STUNNED!

Obviously, my favorite of these was the call for a "men's history month." Missing the point award.