In Other Words, a feminist bookstore in Portland, OR has run into financial trouble. The organization that runs In Other Words, the Women’s Community Education Project, ran $18,743 in the red last year. Last month, the store laid off its only two employees. Sales at the bookstore are down 73% compared to four years ago. A plan to redefine the bookstore as a “resource center” has not stemmed the tide of financial losses.
The financial trouble In Other Words is having can be traced to one source, a law that took effect last summer that made it illegal to force college students to buy their textbooks from a single source. Before that law took effect, In Other Words had an exclusive contract to sell textbooks for women’s studies classes at Portland State University. All students at PSU taking a women’s studies class had to buy their textbooks from In Other Words until last summer. Given that PSU is a state university, In Other Words effectively survived on a government subsidy. Given that the law in question was passed in 2008 and didn’t take effect until 2010, the management of In Other Words had a long time to come up with a plan to deal with the lost income from not having a captive market. However, management of In Other Words has been unable to stop the financial losses. Because of this, it is likely that In Other Words will be closing in the near future.
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I’m surprised they couldn’t find new customers. All the corporate diversity coordinators and HR departments could have offered some leads. That would mean getting proactive and competing. The type of woman that starts a woman’s book store was likely coddled her whole life by daddy. Comfortably sitting on her ass all day waiting for prince charming to rescue her store was likely her business model.
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I am simply….hearbroken. NOT!
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In a microcosm, that says it all about Feminism. Without government sweetheart deals, they can’t pay the bills.
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Feminists use math like a fish uses a bicycle.
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The linked article claims it was the last feminist bookstore on the West Coast. As if.
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From the linked WW article:
“…We want a bottom-selling author.”
“..an insular feminist bookstore alienating customers and neglecting financial opportunities..”
“And the truth (in the satire) may be helping kill the 18-year-old bookstore.”
Questions anyone?
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Dear by Pro-male/Anti-feminist Tech on July 25, 2011:
“The financial trouble In Other Words is having can be traced to one source, a law that took effect last summer that made it illegal to force college students to buy their textbooks from a single source.”
“Given that PSU is a state university, In Other Words effectively survived on a government subsidy.”
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Thank you very much for your discussion: it is quite noteworthy. The combination of the above-quoted words of your discussion add up not to a GOVERNMENT subsidy, but a PRIVATE subsidy BY FORCE OF STATE.
One thing that typifies economic organizations which are single-demand-dependent is their inability to sell themselves. They don’t know how to encourage people to buy their products as they are monopolies. Such monopolies (and paramonopolies of forced purchases include what you described,. Others, on a much larger scale include defence-contract corporations which could be described in effect as, “privately owned government departments.”
In Canada, there is a Crown-sponsored monopoly seller of Western-Canadian exported grain, the Canadian Wheat Board. The farmers who market through it (by force of state) have very much smaller operations (which result in capital stuffing–too much machinery for too little land) and NO MARKETING DEPARTMENTS.
Such para-state organizations are quite Feminist in their worldview. They do not have to ask anyone for an economic date: a matchmaker does it for them and the result is extremely low economic efficiency (and, by the way, higher suicide rates among farmers in the case of the CWB). Such economic animals are like the proverbial Feminist who wants the right to ask a man out on a date, but once that right is achieved, they refuse to exercise it BECAUSE OF THE RISK AND RESPONSIBLITY associated with it.
Ironically, on an ecnomic basis, such economic players prefer economic ARRANGED MARRIAGES in which, “My body: my choice” is DENIED TO THE OTHER PLAYERS.
In the case you mentioned, such an arranged economic marriage by force of state is as per the female seller who is ECONOMICALLY UNDERAGE (she’s not ready for economic intercourse). And when she is given notice that the marital laws of economic coupling of supplier and demander are to be put assunder, SHE DOESN’T PLAN AN ALTERNATIVE. She’s in premeditated drift even though she typically states that she doesn’t want subsidies for private enterprise (Exxon, etc.).
It is clear what she really wants: Socialism for the Female (and its concommitant forced purches at the private expense of her forced customers) Rich and not even Free Enterprise for the Female Poor (the overwhelming ranks of women who buy such Feminist courses such as Women’s Studies).
Why do women not make it in business? The case you mentioned certainly indicates why. “The cusomers owe me their purches.” I noticed the same attitude at garage sales/rummage sales.
At one church rummage sale, the Feminist women who ran it insisted that the rediculously high prices they put onto things were the price ENGRAVED IN STONE and that any man who objected and offered a lower price was an offender. Such women do not consider their customers. Again, the Social Entitlement Disorder of women is apparent.
With a view that, “cusomers owe me their business” typifies so much of the so-called, “business” worldview of women. They do not seek to supply what the customers want/need at the value they assign to it: they impose a value onto something regardless of its true value being much lower and then feel affronted by noncustomers who don’t buy their ill-priced goods.
In the case of the feminist book store, finally, the true value that the women buyers (and, perhaps a few manginas, also) assigned to the published works they, “valued so much” was not that high. The feminarket of femisupply versus femidemand even cleared at an honest market value. Such will result in the economic bankruptcy (to come) on an economic basis that the female students (and assumedly mangina students also) had assigned to it vis-a-vis the value of the femieducation (propaganda/rant, etc.). The book store went/is about to go, “tits up.”
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The cunts got what was coming to them. Shouldn’t free enterprise ESPECIALLY penalize this failure?
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How does one possibly enforce such a law with Amazon in existence? Do they have to provide receipts to the professor?
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In other words this is an actual feel good story about the demise of evil in the world.
Thanks. I needed some good news.
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gender foreigner
http://i.imgur.com/ewkAO.gif
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Perhaps if they had a humor section…
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…or carried that great new book MRAs Who Run With the Wolves, which has been selling briskly, from what I understand.
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What!?!?!? The proprietrix must certainly be inept. Not one government program, grant or leftist foundation could be uncovered to save the day?
::sarcasm off
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That is fantastic…I just passed this store not 2 hours ago. Thanks for finding this out and posting it.
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As an aside, college textbooks, like college education, are a scam.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0315/College-tuition-is-expensive-enough-let-alone-the-textbooks
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Dear scatmaster July 25, 2011 at 15:34:
Thanks for the encouragement. I’ll look for things to account as femiparasitism goes under systematically as the host aborts the parasite.
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“In Other Words”, young women don’t care what feminists think. It’s a hatred movement, and young women don’t hate men. They’d prefer to find one, marry one and no longer have to work.
Today’s self-proclaimed feminist has all the sex appeal of a pig wallowing in it’s own filth. She’s left with the weakest and most desperate omega males on campus to choose from, assuming she’s even heterosexual. Women’s studies alumnus as been slowly winnowed down to a few fuglies that no young man would touch and some token lesbians.
It’s never been LESS cool to be a feminist.
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So they know it’s teachers doing it…and the lady that runs the bookstore aond her friend and wow it’s some scam these smart ladies have cooked up….what, you won’t stop….it’s illegal! ….but why would we stop? if it’s illegal, show me the law…..what!?!?, it’s corruption, it’s stealing like a fee from the government….oh shit! we need a law….then it passes, no change….crickit…..crickit….then 2 years later it’s law….HEADLINE: 2m nice lesbian ladie need’s new day gig…..been out of work two months..wez feminists for pay?
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gender foreigner:
You are welcome sir!!!
Please continue your writings.
I see a blog or website that would do very well in your future.
I look forward to reading more of your posts.
Top notch stuff!!!
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Boy, they got into it two ways: a feminist bookstore, and a college textbook store. A license to print money. Those are two of the most corrupt, double dealing industries out there. Hasta la vista.
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OT…
get married. this is what you get.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2018763/Blubbing-Fergie-hits-new-low-Duchess-allows-Beatrice-Eugenie-filmed-clearly-distress-latest-TV-series.html
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Adam Abels July 25, 2011 at 14:21
“Feminists use math like a fish uses a bicycle.”
We have a winner for the “red wine spat on the keyboard” contest!!!
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When I was in college (10 years ago, so amazon was around even then), I was often forced to buy the books the professors had written themselves (crappy books that nobody would read if they didn’t have to). These would only be sold in the college co-op. In other cases the “books” were little more than bound up collections of articles that were collected from various different sources and would be difficult to find if you didn’t buy the “book” at the store.
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In other words, this was a long time coming. Maybe I’ll stop by and grab a couple next time I run out of toilet paper. Or better yet, find the people who she fired and encourage them to sue for being fired due to sexism.
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Please do pay a visit to that store, those of you who can.
Offer them to buy a few books for 25 cents each. Ask them if they carry books on Masculism and tell them you would place an order for ten thousand dollars if they carry such books.
Offer them a franchise of dildos and all things feminist.
Or ask them to give you all their books free, for recycling and for printing a collection of masculist dogma….ask them if they would be interested in selling those books instead of the crap they now have on sale..
Make them feel like shit.
Get a good belly laugh out of it.
Squarely, openly laugh at them: it will do them so much good.
Yes, I know… it’s not nice…
” But what can I do”, said the scorpio to the frog: “it’s my nature…”
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In Other Words had an exclusive contract to sell textbooks for women’s studies classes at Portland State University
I don’t even think that’s legal and that’s aside from the fact that “Womens Studies” is all bullshit anyway.
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In other words, selfish, illogical govt social engineering and mandates are made of FAIL.
Always have been, always will be.
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It should have been illegal in the first place, to have created a law forcing students to buy from a single source.
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Geography Bee Finalist himself
Feminists do not like the free market because they would have to provide a service that consumers actually want to buy and the only “service” I can think of that a feminist can provide for me that I’d be willing to pay for is…
well it’s not something I’m allowed to mention in front of polite society. *wink*
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Since when can women run a business anyway? Nearly every business run by a female I have come across has gone tits up. Women are too lazy and incompetent too make it in the real world.
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Women ought to look at the success of Feminism as its Ultimate Refutation. Feminism holds that men, and the EVIL sexuality men impose on women, ran the world in a vast patriarchy. If this was true, feminism wouldn’t have a chance or at least experience fierce opposition from ‘patriarchy’. Yet, historically feminism’s biggest critics were women. Men passively accepted it. It shows that while men may conquer the world, women conquer men. Men’s problem today is being too nice, too sappy. By letting Feminism thrive, men show that we want to please women and that men are more influenced by women than feminists would dare admit. I would dare say that Feminism is the only modern movement that describes men as the way they would love to think of themselves: as dangerous, conquering, rulers. In reality, nearly every man you know is relegated to slavery by women, in one form or another.
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Reminds me of that skit from the show Portlandia.
two feminists running a bookstore Women and Women First. Showed them completely bitter, incompetent and mock-worthy.
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We are yet to see a fortune 500 company stared by a women.
End of story.
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They ignore the US Civil Rights Laws that prohibits discrimination based on sex in every public business. Don’t expect our government to obey the law.
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I believe that given enough time, the “gender-Raunch” construction will eat itself.
I have concluded that the main source of “Empowerment” of the gender-feminist community, lies in the fact that they have “perverted American law enforcement” into “manufacturing statistics” that gender-feminist quack professors use to “Empower” themselves with.
But folks, the facts are in, in heavily gender-feminist dominated north-Eastern states, because women are now such legal liabilities, men are in fact staying away from relationships with them.
So now with American law enforcements gravy trains starting to dry up (no innocent males left to persecute because they are not even going near women), the financial incentives are also drying up.
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With bookstore giant BORDERS shutting down now, brick-n-mortar bookstores are going the way of the old video-rental shops, however the feminazis will always have the Internet to peddle their Marxist wares.
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“…however the feminazis will always have the Internet to peddle their Marxist wares.”
Yes, and anti-feminists are way ahead of them in this regard; in writing, audio broadcasting and video. We’re a thousand armys of one, spread all over the world, and we’re starting to get organized and louder.
The internet paradigm is the end of the feminist meme. It will take years, but it’s starting to happen right now. They’re being exposed for what they’ve been all along, (a male hate movement) and there’s nothing they can do to stop us. They have no where to run and hide.
The shutting down of the bookstore is a metaphor that serves to reveal where the whole movement is headed; the graveyard of failed social engineering experiments. Men are taking back their manhood.
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dan July 26, 2011 at 07:37
Is there a point to this article other than “a business failed”? What gem are you going to come up with tomorrow “a car drove over a puddle and splashed a woman… haha!”?
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Is it Dan or Danielle?
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Todays young women may find reading about feminism irrelevent but the infection has already been spread. They have been influenced by their mothers, sisters, friends, teachers and the anti-male media. The good news is that eventually all feminist bookstore will shut down, yet we will still have a long way to go to put an end to the infection. In the immortal words of Winston Churchill, “Never, ever give up.”
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Why did they have to lay off their only two employees if they only have to pay those employees 77% of what a man would get for the same job?
Shouldn’t that have enabled this store to outlast stores that hire men?
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At last! An article with a happy ending!
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ha ha, bye bye amber
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@ July 26th, 2011 at 15:24
The free market still did the right thing by penalizing failure. Make all the excuses you want, I don’t give a fuck. B??-h??, t?? bad, s? sad.
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Dear TFH July 26, 2011 at 11:23:
Bravo! Big time.
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dan July 26, 2011 at 07:37
“Is there a point to this article other than “a business failed”? What gem are you going to come up with tomorrow “a car drove over a puddle and splashed a woman… hahaha”
Oooh, Good suggestion danNIELLE! It would be perfect for the humor and women-can-kiss-our-asses section.
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Amber Rowland, you made a valid point about brick and mortar book stores closing due to online book sales. That’s obviously a part of the cause.
But wouldn’t you agree that much of the feminist and ‘women’s studies’ literature is lacking in merit and intellectual rigor? Wouldn’t you agree that feminism has failed to contribute any significant value to society?
Isn’t it true that feminism is a morally bankrupt, self-serving movement for females to gain at the expense of males? Isn’t it true that feminism leads to bitter disappointment in the lives of straight women, and it only benefits lesbians in the end?
If you can think of one thing to say in defense of feminism, please share it (succinctly, if possible), because most people find it completely worthless.
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Amber Rowland, you made a valid point about brick and mortar book stores closing due to online book sales. That’s obviously a part of the cause.
But wouldn’t you agree that much of the feminist and ‘women’s studies’ literature is lacking in merit and intellectual rigor? Wouldn’t you agree that feminism has failed to contribute any significant value to society?
Isn’t it true that feminism is a morally bankrupt, self-serving movement for females to gain at the expense of males? Isn’t it true that feminism leads to bitter disappointment in the lives of straight women, and it only benefits lesbians in the end?
If you can think of one thing to say in defense of feminism, please share it (succinctly, if possible), because most people find it completely worthless.
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Amber,
When I saw your name and the word correction, I stopped reading and bet myself a dollar that you would go with the “my daddy must have molested me which caused me” usual defense to incompetence or wrongdoing. Thumbs up to you for getting creative, even though I lost a dollar to myself.
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I suspect the hipster satire Portlandia poked fun at this exact bookstore situation.
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Portland doesn’t have half the number of bookstores it had when I moved here. The loss of even one more, even this one, is unfortunate. The internet and chain stores killed off most bookstores, but a few have found the means to hang on. Including some highly specialized stores, stores with a smaller audience than In Other Words.
What is especially unfortunate is that if they had Uncle Sam as a sugar daddy, they should have been putting money aside from that source from the start. Then they would have a kitty to draw from in times like these. “Things will always be like this” is not a business plan that leads to success.
In Other Words used to be on Hawthorne, which is one of the top shopping streets in the city. They built an elevated area in the store, I think because it looked nice, but it got them grief from women in wheelchairs who now couldn’t browse. They moved the store twice, and surviving that suggests their sugar daddy was taking care of them very well.
That store never had anything I wanted, but I want to see people in bookstores and now there’s one less chance for that happening.
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Is it Dan or Danielle?
Dangina.
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