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Originally Posted by mimosavj
 First, thank you Blossom & Lynx-lynx for your information about the genre Women's HF. I learn quite a bit from your posts.
@haydnfan: Is there an option to change the title of a thread after you created it? If there is, I appreciate your help to guide me on the matter..
LOL, when I created this thread, all I knew was these:
(i) I found some great deals on books that I loved, i.e. Women's Historical Fiction (Thanks Blossom for clarifying this, I don't know much about genres, so all of the HF about Women, and occasionally Men, from a Woman's POV that I read were from women, so well...),
(ii) I found them on Amazon UK and
(iii) why not sharing the info with other readers with similar taste?
Stupid me! What I found after posting the harmless deals are these:
(i) there must be a certain guideline to title a thread, i.e. nothing specific, why not just "ebooks" since the thread is in a Deals subforum, it must be a bargain, right? and since gender specific is somehow offensive, it should be neutral, right? and worse why titling it "ebooks", this is an ebook forum, noone should talk about deadtree books anyway...
(ii) nothing is harmless (even your intention is harmless), somehow someone will find it offensive (sigh!!!) and
(iii) I shouldn't even have my own taste (i.e. prefer WHF in Women' POV) since it is not right to other readers
By the way, where is the simple courtesy of a simple "Thanks" when someone's trying to help? Does this whole mess mean trying to do something nice will get you scolded? I rest my case and the thread too...
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mimosavj please don't discontinue the thread because of comments that have both puzzled and offended you. Your thread covered a genre that didn't seem to be otherwise covered, and you can name the thread what you want. If either the name or the content of thread doesn't suit someone then they don't have to visit it.
Start the thread afresh if you want and that will leave all these posts far behind.
When you first started the thread in September I subscribed to it. The topic of women in history, whether fiction or non-fiction, is of interest generally to me - particularly when written by women.
For too long women's achievements didn't exist as far as historians were concerned - but women have always played their part and contributed.