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I’ve been creeped on in bookstores more than any other place. For some reason men like to go into women dominated spaces to harass them, I don’t know why.

Book Club 12w

Eughhh a much older man got close to me in b&n today when I picked up a random book that looked interesting and said “I thought about picking that one up too” and it was a golden girls mystery. Ohh right, sure 🫩

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Anonymous 12w

In ask men someone talked abt how there was some creep in a bookstore and I straight up just recommended pepper spraying them. I recommend the same for you, though like go near some other women first so you have witnesses of you audibly telling the guy to leave you alone beforehand so there’s a basis for you protecting yourself. Creeps unfortunately love trying to destroy normal spaces

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Anonymous 12w

It’s not really a take, it just so happens that women read more than men these days. Most of our staff and clientele were female when I worked there and we had a large problem with harassment.

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Anonymous 12w

Bookstore owner here! My customer base is definitely women-dominated. Not even as much as other places because I am a college town and a lot of professors come too. But generally, it’s more women and queer folks than men, especially cis men.

Anonymous 12w

Women do read more than men but it’s not by that large of a margin. A lot of the people in this group are chronically online and wrapped up in the whole “booktok” thing which is dominated by women creators. Creates a bias that makes it seem like the gap between men and women readers is bigger than it is. Also women outread mean in fiction by a huge amount, but men also outread women in nonfiction by a huge amount. It all depends on context.

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Anonymous 12w

According to Pew Research Center roughly 80% of women read at least one book a year compared to 70% of men, I think that’s where the talking point came from. So the gap’s there but it’s not huge. Women absolutely dominate fiction though, they read fiction at double the rate of men.

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#3 12w

So yeah “women-dominated space” is a strange way to describe a bookstore. But quibbling over demographics is a distraction from the real issue that men harassing women in public is unacceptable, regardless of who technically “dominates” the space.

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#4 12w

Hey I actually recommend this as a VERY LAST resort. Pepper spraying indoors can be a problem for not just the guy harassing, but also the person spraying, anyone else nearby, those with respiratory issues, and it will 100% ruin any nearby book stock. If someone did this in my store, it would cost me hundreds of dollars to fix and I probably wouldn’t make a profit that month. If anything, you should talk to staff first so they can use their position to ask the guy to leave.

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#2 12w

Good point, tase them instead if the staff doesn’t do enough