When Avid Reader shared Clementine Ford’s Facebook post, the Brisbane bookseller’s social media page was attacked by trolls, prompting an extraordinary counterattack by the writer’s fans and Australia’s literary community
On Monday morning, independent Brisbane bookstore Avid Reader shared a Facebook post from Australian feminist writer Clementine Ford, who was happily announcing that she’d signed a contract to write her second book.
Ford described the book, Boys Will Be Boys, as one that will “examine toxic masculinity” – making what happened next particularly ironic.
Related: Clementine Ford: ‘There’s something really toxic with the way men bond in Australia’
Ever been so sad, so pathetic, so devoid of purpose or attention, you went to war with a bookstore and lost? http://pic.twitter.com/nsQxR0KShw
Words cannot express how much I love my former workplace and dear friends at @avidreader4101. http://pic.twitter.com/DBlwV3AqzP
The best part about the @avidreader4101 trolls is the confusion over what to be mad about - my old book or my new book.
Related: Feminazi: the go-to term for trolls out to silence women
just gotta text the boss real quick nbd http://pic.twitter.com/CcJBQlzVcH
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