Amazon, Why do you fail me?
To sum up, it looks like Amazon is deliberately making it harder to find LGBT Lit. For more details, go here:
http://www.journalfen.net/community/unfunnybusiness/100114.html
This truly ticks me off on a number of levels, not the least of which is that it disturbs my happy candy-land fantasy that we're getting past this as a culture.
Now, I acknowledge that Amazon has the right to do anything they want with their own business. We, in turn, have a right not to buy things from Amazon ever again. Now, I somehow doubt that they did this specifically to hurt the LGBT community. Rather, I think some twit convinced the higher-ups that having OMGTEHGAY!!! pop up on searches was hurting their sales. Thus, to prevent such idiocy from being perpetrated in the future, we just have to demonstrate that this sort of behavior will hurt their sales a whole lot more.
(PS: tehdely suggests here http://tehdely.livejournal.com/88823.html that this may be a result of values-trolls abusing the the "mark as adult" button. I'd love to give Amazon the benefit of the doubt, if I could actually FIND a "mark as adult" button.)
http://www.journalfen.net/community/unfunnybusiness/100114.html
This truly ticks me off on a number of levels, not the least of which is that it disturbs my happy candy-land fantasy that we're getting past this as a culture.
Now, I acknowledge that Amazon has the right to do anything they want with their own business. We, in turn, have a right not to buy things from Amazon ever again. Now, I somehow doubt that they did this specifically to hurt the LGBT community. Rather, I think some twit convinced the higher-ups that having OMGTEHGAY!!! pop up on searches was hurting their sales. Thus, to prevent such idiocy from being perpetrated in the future, we just have to demonstrate that this sort of behavior will hurt their sales a whole lot more.
(PS: tehdely suggests here http://tehdely.livejournal.com/88823.html that this may be a result of values-trolls abusing the the "mark as adult" button. I'd love to give Amazon the benefit of the doubt, if I could actually FIND a "mark as adult" button.)