βFacebook comment by Philip Batterham: This video is misleading, possibly deliberately so. There are people born with Y chromosomes who are female and it is not that rare. To say so is not leftist. You just need an education in genetics. Further, there are people born intersex, and it is genetic.
Reply by user whose name is blacked out: You look like a nice guy Philip, but she is a Pediatrician
Reply by Philip Batterham: and I am the President of the International Genetic Federation.β]
If you do this, I sincerely hope someone spit in your food and/or played hockey with it on the floor before serving it to you.
As someone who is a waitress (and someone with common sense) this is honestly one of the most infuriating and disrespectful things that I have ever seen.
if you do this shit, i donβt want you following me.
If you do this shit, I would personally spit in your fucking food.Β
I saw a sad facebook post from the gay bookstore back in Ann Arbor where I used to live about how they hadnβt sold any books that day so I went on their online store and bought a couple, and while you donβt get #deals like elsewhere online, Iβd love it if yβall would consider buying your next gay book from them instead of like, Amazon.
Common Language is a great bookstore and while Iβve only been there once, I follow it on Instagram and really want to see it succeed!
Their most recent Facebook post (~9:30 PM, April 18):
A little update:
At last count we had 211 online orders over the last couple of days. We generally have a handful of online orders PER MONTH. And many days our in store sales are 3-5 books. In other words, this deluge is significantly more than we sell in a month. We are literally brought to tears by this outpouring.
About 80% of them have already been fulfilled and are on their way to you.
The other 20% require special attention (out of print book, book temporarily out of stock, etc.) or we need to pull together books from various sources. Some of you will be getting emails from me!
Our staff is three people and one dog. And while the dog is, perhaps, the worldβs sweetest dog, heβs not much help in this task. The lack of opposable thumbs is a big hindrance to many bookstore tasks.
Mind you, we are not complaining. Having a surge which overwhelms our current resources is a great problem to have. Heartfelt thanks.
As I take a short break from fulfilling orders I wanted to share a few thoughts.
This is transformative.
We will be able to pay some bills which will steady the ship for a longer voyage. In our wildest dreams this surge would continue, weβd hire more people to handle the load, and the world would have a thriving honest-to-god queer bookstore.
But even if it doesnβt continue at this truly astonishing rate, having a regular flow on online orders would give the store a level of security we havenβt seen in a long time.
All of you did this. You made it happen. And you can be a part of making that dream come true. In fact, you can be the most important part of making that dream come true. You can be an ambassador.
It was, after all, an ambassador who made this happen.
When a friend talks about getting a book, steer them to us. Our mission is to create a safe space for LGBT people, a resource for a community, a place of equality for women, a place where black lives truly matter, a place where your gender is what you say it is, not what anyone else says it is.