Why did Leigh Alexander say "Pirates" leaked her book from Though Catalog? I think I might know.

10100101 <- That multiplied by a lot make up the letters to my words. And my words paint a picture to what I want you to gain from them. So when someone flashes something in front of me, I try to gain as much as I can from it's content. Easiest thing for me to gain is words. That's why Leigh Alexander's words caught me off guard.

"The digital publisher, Thought Catalog, gave me an advance to do my first book '[Breathing Machine, A Memoir of Computers][3]'. Which is a memoir of growing up along side the early internet and computers and stuff."

Ok... when does this get interesting... well she goes on to say:

"Basically, as soon as I took their money though, they started letting their quality bar plummet by publishing transphobic hate speech."

Um, that's bad I guess? Well NO it's not. I am not stating my stance with that. Basically what I am saying is that Thought Catalog tries to be an eloquent free speech platform. A platform, that even if you don't agree, will publish effective opinions opposite one another on behalf of it's authors. Right, Left, Authoritarian, Marxist, and so on, but it doesn't matter. Thought Catalog published everything that can sell and doesn't seem to show discrimination to that fact.

So here comes the good part

"Somebody leaked my book on to the internet. So now instead of giving money to Thought Catalog, there's horrible pirates stealing it, OOPS[2]"

-Leigh Alexander

I'm [expletive] confused. You used a free speech platform to push your book, took their money, didn't agree with the other writers using the same platform, and possibly let someone leak your book on the internet, then promoted that fact. So that way no one would get the money?

That has got to be the most Self Shilling, I've ever witnessed. And I've never once used that word seriously, that was the first(congratulate me).

Well, this gets deeper. I went on to find the "Transphobic" hate speech that was published. I found that it is by VICE/Rooster co-founder Gavin McInnes, called 'Transphobia Is Perfectly Natural', which has been removed from the site for hate speech[1]. Whether I agree with it or not, he used the right platform, and obviously conveyed it well enough to get published along with Leigh Alexander.

I did the search for his company and boycott and in the search, available here it's about as expected. He was asked to take an indefinite leave of absence due to the publication and subsequent loss of advertisers.

All of this just confuses me, and maybe you. Basically Leigh Alexander punished Thought Catalog for doing what it does, publishing free speech/opinoin. Instead of going after the producer of those thoughts via a consumer level. Which leads me too:

This Gem

Which would be a true smoking gun if she ever mentions the fact that there was a boycott/revolt on this product's advertisers. But supporters of her plight sure did take it to the Thought Catalog, much like GamerGate does with Gawker, Kotaku, and Gamasutra, et. al. Instead, she also goes straight for Thought Catalog, who wasn't phased by the loss, but then writes Vice articles.

Alright, I'm done. I can't even right now. Too plebbed out. Thanks for reading and if someone could archive and pass those alongs to me, I will edit them in. I am at working right now and it blocks archive as a proxy site.

A few of the leaders in that little revolt where

Leigh Alexander for her part in leaking book. 

Parker Marie Molloy for writing an article that made it to advocate.com

[The Tumblr](http://boycottrooster.tumblr.com/companies) and [Twitter](http://www.twitter.com/BoycottRooster)

Edit [1]: Fixed a link and it's status as well as formatting in the lower part

Edit [2]: Added the sarcastic OOPS as I missed it. It was pointed out by u/BundleBee.

Edit [3]: Fixed the book name with the Amazon listing, it wasn't comprehensible to me via video