[The Beast1]

(07-11-2016 07:00 PM)Kinko Wrote:  

[b]The New York Public Library workers at the branches in New York City, are exceptional. They do not play games with patrons. Not me at least.[/b]

My suburban community college campus is a complete and utter feminist war zone. The workers are encouraged to be hostile towards men, to the hilt.

My public library workers here in the suburbs are as bad as the community college. I almost can not enter some of the branches.

The local art college here has a beautiful library and its chill. I dress nice when I go there. The students do not bug me.

There is a University nearby, but it is not a major university. Its library is loaded with feminists. There are hostile e-motions in the atmosphere.

I think a men-only library would be great. Like in the photos above, it would be like heaven compared to what I am up against now.

Sounds like the problem isn't all libraries, just college libraries.

Which we all know are ground zero places for degenerate.

[stefpdt]

My local library is cool and it isn't the employees who bother me. It's the passed out homeless people and other people who just kinda hangout all day and bring down the vibe lol. I'm usually trying to get shit done if I'm at the lib, but it can be challenging when you're literally surrounded by bums.

[Enigma]

(07-11-2016 08:27 PM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:  

As for this subject, I don't buy it. Back 20-30 years ago, librarians were the ones who fought so government officials couldn't rifle through people's library check-out histories and spy on citizens.

That puts them on the side of freedom -- as opposed to SJWs, who put people's private lives "on blast." If SJWs ran libraries, people's entire check-out history would by now be online and shaming would be massive. We'd need to read "incorrect" books in secret.

In 2012, I spent massive time in several libraries researching my book and never once came across anyone "militant." They were mostly older women whose kids had grown and needed something to do, so they took library jobs.

Agree 100% with DoBA.

I used to go to public libraries on an almost daily basis and never had any problems.

Guys freaking out because a librarian glared at them or there's a poor person using the computer need to develop some thicker skin.

Imagine Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sean Connery going to the public library and then starting a thread because a "militant" librarian whispered something about them behind the desk. It's absurd.

[Mage]

(07-11-2016 04:04 PM)Kinko Wrote:  

Anybody have experience with hostile man-hating library workers? It seems like every library is ran by 95% female staff. Some act like rabid pigs.

Why is library staff always female? Are men not smart enough to work with books? Also I have noticed most of their day is just gossip, spreading lies, rumors and backstabbing.

What would an all male library staff be like? Do you think we could manage a library? Sounds really easy with good benefits and air conditioning.

Never in my life have I seen a male librarian. I would not be surprised if there would turn out to be no single male librarian in the whole Russia and Eastern Europe. Perhaps except some small prison or military base library.

If you as much as have 5% male stuff in libraries that means your country is feminized.

Why men don't work in libraries? Simple reasons:

1)The job is dull
2)The job has no perspectives of career growth
3)The pay is mediocre or bad
4)The job requires no physical strength
5)Contrary to what some people think the work doesn't require great intellectual power. You just have to be able to read, recognize books by name, catalog them, order them is shelves. You don't have to read these books, don't have to know what they are about, don't have to enjoy them.
6)The job requires long hours of sitting still, denying impulses to do something physical or speak loud, and looking decently orderly - things women are better. The job is incompatible with testosterone.

A librarian is just a failed accountant - similar job but with less money around.

[Easy_C]

OP being a troll does not mean they are wrong. Librarians have always been that way since time immemorial......it is a job that is almost requires a neurotic, OCD personaliy to be good at it. I remember my father talking about a crazy librarian in his hometown in the 50's.....one day they decided to take an empty book and stuff it with an alarm clock. The reaction was exactly what you would expect.

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Never in my life have I seen a male librarian. I would not be surprised if there would turn out to be no single male librarian in the whole Russia and Eastern Europe. Perhaps except some prison or military base library.

I have seen a few. In all cases they were older guys who were doing it part time as a way to supplement their social security, military pension, or some other retirement income and to fill their spare time with something.

[debeguiled]

(07-12-2016 03:02 AM)Enigma Wrote:  

Guys freaking out because a librarian glared at them or there's a poor person using the computer need to develop some thicker skin.

No one is freaking out about flipping libraries.

We are engaging in good natured hyperbole, while marking the changing nature of a public institution.

I have had lesbo librarians and aimless female security guards give me the stinkeye, and it is annoying, no more.

When I was in my early twenties I threw the library in my home town's only copy of "Don Juan" by Carlos Castenada in the creek because I thought it was shit, told the librarian I had done it, and she told me that although this sort of action was bad in general, in this case she didn't blame me.

It is my experience, and the experience of a lot of members, it seems, that lovers of books and information are being replaced by overwhelmingly sapphic seekers of power and control, and it is kind of a pain.

That's it.

As for the homeless, I was only describing the situation, and if it came across as if I was trashing the downtrodden, I apologize. I say good for them if they have found somewhere they are happy.

My city makes it pretty hard for people to work their way off the streets, and if the library offers a place for passing the time, especially during the winter months, then I am all for it.

It just isn't really a library in the same way it was, it has a different character, and there is nothing wrong with a bit of an elegy for what libraries used to be before it is forgotten.

I will say too that even though my dyke friendly town has some disasters behind the counter, there are obviously still good librarians out there, and good human beings too.

Some, who knows how many, libraries in fact are actively trying to accommodate themselves to this new social services function of the library for the down and out, with places like Salt Lake City leading the way by actively reaching out to the homeless:

http://www.good4utah.com/news/local-wasa...e-homeless

Also proposing a 24 hour library to make sure people have somewhere to go, especially in a harsh winter place like Salt Lake City:

http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/all-night...id=2762354

Beyond Salt Lake City, There have been effort for some libraries to focus on serving homeless, not just police them, as this presentation at the American Library Association yearly conference:

ALA 2015 Program Review: “They’re Our Customers, Too: Engaging the Homeless at Your Library”


I mean, honestly, can't we just talk about libraries, how they're changing, how we feel about it without it being interpreted as thin skinned bleating?

Anyway, on a different note, can anyone figure out why a female troll would start a thread like this? It baffles me. Is it a lesbian librarian trying to trick us into sharing our true feelings about her?

[TigerMandingo]

Haha, cool thread.

My little town has an awesome public library, I think it made the list of top 20 libraries in the US one year or something like that. Great selections, tons of DVD's, and they let you renew as many times as you want. Staff is all female though, and they're mostly frumpy older chicks with short haircuts, so I can see the OP's point.

Now, one problem with this particular library and I'm guessing with other ones across the country is selective censorship, where they don't keep many un-PC books on the shelves. Try finding Kevin Macdonald, Jack Donovan, or Neil Strauss..they don't want the proles getting too curious..

[heavy]

My sister and sister-in-laws use the library all the time for their children. They consistently take their children in simply for the amount of kids reading material.

^^ This is the best use of libraries...though my siblings don't live in urban areas, which makes sense. Libraries in smaller communities basically represent book sharing for kids...the most efficient usage of public funds are on small scale.

That said, I go into the library in my city and it reflects what I've read in other posts. Homeless people, people using the free internet...a bunch of people who probably don't pay nearly the city or state taxes I pay for the service.

I don't really understand municipal funding (for city clerks, libraries, etc), though I'd guess it comes from state taxes. It seems to me, at this point with our current technology, it should be funded by individual municipalities.

I think the current method is a thing of the past...free access for all. Although I do think it's good for a community to all free access to knowledge, even outside of the internet.

Seems like library funding could be completely donation based at this point, even if it's based on monthly donations that you can opt out of. Meh, maybe not. States generally want their citizens to have access to knowledge. Shit I don't know.

[XPQ22]

Go to the library. Get the free pass to the science museum or aquarium. Take your online game date there when they have evening hours on the weekend. She lives four miles away. Sneak in a flask of whiskey. Admire the dinosaurs and wave tank, get your science ramble on, show her good time. Offer to drive her home, grab some takeout on the way, bang.

Done this twice so far, hell I even pretty much let the librarians at the desk know what I'm planning (several of them are in their 20s and 30s, not bad.) Check out a DVD or two to bring with you for plausible deniability (Hey, did you see "The Martian"? No? Funny that I was at the library earlier and...)

Libraries are great!

[Mikan]

I had a work study job in college in the public library system for a large American city.

Many libraries in American cities are daylight high end homeless shelters now. As long as you don't reek of piss and don't act like a psychopath the staff will leave you alone. Keep quiet, don't break shit or interact with the patrons and don't stink.
It also helps that the "good" homeless tend to narc out the trouble makers immediately to staff and law enforcement so their own comfortable day-house isn't jeopardized. The "regulars" can become quite protective of the library and will actively run off other homeless from even trying to enter. They go back to either a shelter or one of their sleeping spots they feel is safe when the library closes and return shortly after it opens.
In tech areas like San Francisco or Jan Jose, its not unusual to find homeless people with STEM educations doing actual tech work on a personal laptop (which they will defend to the death) or a browser based code editor on a library computer. There are even a few tech-squats where they go to sleep at night and for common defense. I've heard camp grounds are popular too if you can afford the plot fees for a small tent or sleeping in your car.
This is not the case in most cities however.