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I'm your average /lit/ board denizen - early 20's, large book collection, into the classics... except that I'm not a man, and that makes all the difference in how I'm treated.

1. When I ask a certain (male) classmate a question about books or show my drafts, I often get a one-word answer and no further discussion. My boyfriend walks up to the same guy and he smiles at him, makes small talk and asks questions about what else he's into. I didn't notice this until my boyfriend pointed it out - I'm not seeking our reasons to be offended. Quite the contrary - I am so used to the sexism that it often doesn't register to me until someone else points it out to me.

2. Twice, when I have tried to join book groups men have frowned at me and asked me if my boyfriend got me into my hobby and why he isn't here tonight.

3. When I bring this up in /lit/, my posts are usually ignored, while the men who explain to me why I'm wrong about things that happened to me get many (yous).

4. My mother went into a bookstore and asked if they had the complete Harry Potter anthology for a gift. The employee said, very slowly and carefully, as if she were a child, "Uh, we sell LITERATURE here." My boyfriend went to the same store a day later and asked about it and was immediately given what he was looking for, because of course they had Harry Potter. My mother has never been back to a bookstore, though.

5. I tend to dress conservatively. That definitely hasn't stopped men book groups from staring down my top or making comments about my body.

6. I stopped going to literature events events, more often than not, a man would make a comment about my gender and how it related to the books I was interested in, my ability to learn, or why I was at the event at all.

>> No.11361171

>>11361169
pls be my gf

>> No.11361173

>>11361169
nice Reddit

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>>11361171
no me, pick me

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>>11361169
>The employee said, very slowly and carefully, as if she were a child, "Uh, we sell LITERATURE here."
/ourguy/

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>>11361169
>My mother went into a bookstore and asked if they had the complete Harry Potter anthology for a gift. The employee said, very slowly and carefully, as if she were a child, "Uh, we sell LITERATURE here.
you gave it away at this point

I TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAR

>> No.11361183

>>11361169
Ok. Sorry.

Why did you make this?
What was the objective?

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>>11361178

>> No.11361185

>>11361169
Can't wait until this bait post gets 200+ serious replies.

>> No.11361186

>>11361169
is that pic OC OP

>> No.11361187

>>11361169
7. When I took a female friend to a literature meetup, a man physically trapped her in a corner with his body to tell her all about whatever the new hotness was at the time. Guess how many times she's been back to one? (And before you tell me that it was her fault - she was half his size and she could not have left the corner without physically shoving him, while his feet were planted and he leaned over her. No one else seemed to think that this was a problem.)
8. Four strangers where discussing their favorite authors. I mention that Dostoevsky was in fact NOT the author of War and Peace. They looked at me and looked away. Two turns later, a male said the same thing. The other men immediately grabbed their phone, looked it up, and praised him for remembering.
9. People keep telling me that because I have zero proof, I'm definitely wrong. Very few of these events took longer than five seconds. I don't wear a body cam to record all footage of how every single person at these event behaves. Even if I and other women are wrong half the time about what we say happens, that's still a pretty significant number of unwelcoming, unpleasant, or threatening events that are happening to people solely because they are women.

>> No.11361190

>>11361185
literal Reddit tier

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>>11361178
>downvote
you tell em

>> No.11361192

TITS OR GTFO

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>>11361178
>>11361184
>he has a reddit account

>> No.11361202

>>11361179
This. That guy is so based. I mean, he's made up but I like to think there are bookstore workers out there like him.

>> No.11361203

>>11361184
>>11361178
>downvote
BOARD GAMERS RISE UP

>> No.11361205

>>11361187
>I mention that Dostoevsky was in fact NOT the author of War and Peace.
ok It breaks the tension, first bait has somewhat redeemable quality but now its just bait being bait

>> No.11361217

That whore is literally putting her asshole on a book! That's fucking disgusting!

>> No.11361263

>>11361183
I just want women in literary circles to be treated fairly. I'm tired of being polite and non-accusatory. There is a problem with how women are treated in this culture