Comments | karanguni: \o Amazon

karanguni

\o Amazon

Apr 13, 2009 09:04

I'm guessing you've seen this on your flist already, but if you haven't - go search for "homosexuality" on Amazon.com and see what they've just done to LGBT books, searches and sales rankings.

I wouldn't normally cry wolf, but the site of that search page makes me so sick that I'm going to call delete-my-Amazon-account instead.

politiks, anger and rage, homophobia does not taste like chicken

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karadin April 13 2009, 01:09:36 UTC

I'm totally with you there, but also let them know exactly why you are deleting as well.

And is this only Amazon.us?

karanguni April 13 2009, 01:11:01 UTC

I signed the petition, which is about all I'm sane enough to do after just rolling out of bed with Sickness Reborn. D:

I have no idea if it's only the .us site or not, but regardless, it is physically sickening.

dhaunea April 13 2009, 01:14:14 UTC

us, ca, de, uk and several others, although the results are not identical. .de, for example, has mostly hit their English titles. The Japanese one requires age verification, apparently.

karanguni April 13 2009, 01:16:23 UTC

*sings* Anger and rage.

scheherezhad April 13 2009, 01:10:04 UTC

Oh my sweet non-Christian god, I just dry-heaved at that search. DDDDDD:

karanguni April 13 2009, 01:11:18 UTC

Yeah.

intradependency April 13 2009, 03:24:47 UTC

Why do people DO THIS? What stupid company board lets this slip BY? I can only consider that it's a deliberate, malicious intentional strike, because to believe that it's accidental is to believe that discrimination is so entrenched that it's unconscious.

dnatio_memoriae April 13 2009, 04:45:14 UTC

Possibly, the lip service that is paid to equality in most public spheres doesn't apply when it involves the welfare of our youth?

intradependency April 13 2009, 04:52:39 UTC

But at least, if that is the argument, apply it universally. :(

I'm convinced the (american? religious?) penchant against homosexual lifestyles comes from the core of their whole 'right to breed = we must breed' mentality. The only problem we have in the world today is that there are too many people - all our issues with resources/environmental impact wouldn't be a concern if people would just breed responsibly, but instead religion's entrenched this belief that we Must Breed Our Own Dynasties and our whole society enforces this over and above the right of the invidividual. Of everything, the gay&happy lifestyle threatens this the most.

I'm glad this petition is hitting Amazon where it hurts, right in their greed pocket. I picture a public retraction soon.

dnatio_memoriae April 13 2009, 05:54:41 UTC

Forgive me if my meaning doesn't come across clearly - this cold, it has me in its grip, truly D ( ... )

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dnatio_memoriae April 13 2009, 04:34:32 UTC

No, I hadn't heard about this on my f-list until I read your post, and I don't have the words right now to articulate how I feel about it. Being ill already, shit like this just does my head in.

Time to move my wishlist items elsewhere.

karanguni April 13 2009, 06:20:37 UTC

Amen.

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karanguni April 13 2009, 10:53:26 UTC

\o Mmm, corporate silliness. *plots fic about it*

numinicious April 13 2009, 14:59:56 UTC

*plots fic about it*

I feel there should be a community for Amazon.com slash.

karanguni April 13 2009, 15:02:23 UTC

'Broke... back?' Boy Meets Boy ("Boy", to most of his friends) asked, turning a corner. Empty, like the last 15 he'd turned before this. There wasn't anyone in the Shopping Cart. And the Recently Viewed salon was silent. 'Brokeback, I'm not kidding, come out -- jesus, I didn't mean that as a pun, but I'm frightened god damn it where are you.'

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