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estuansinterius redone my layout, to one that I prefer. It's not gray, but I've got my Impala and Kerouac. I had the other layout for a while (two years?), so it was time for a change.
Amazon is currently failing. Check out #amazonfail on Twitter. On metafilter, from Mark Probst, on Jezebel, and on feministe.
Long story short: Amazon is de-ranking supposed adult products - not vibrators or lube or anal plugs (all of which you can actually buy on Amazon) - but books like Tipping the Velvet, The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability, and Homophobia: A History, as well as other young adult-level books or romances with queer characters.
They *are* keeping the ranking, however, of anti-homosexual books. You know, the ones I'm terrified my super-religious family will one day throw at me - overcome your queer, now with added Jesus.
I hope I don't have to tell you that this is not okay.
I've seen a lot of people talking about boycotting Amazon.
Now, while I'm influenced by the fact that I like to use Amazon for things beyond books (I can buy things like vibrators *and* hard-to-find baking products together on Amazon and I don't want to give that up), I am also more angry than anything.
Sure, I could stop at not buying anything from them. I could probably (and will) find another website to buy things from.
But I've been an angry, angry pansexual lately. I don't want to sit back and say, "I'll let my actions speak for me." At the moment, I feel like simple actions don't cover speaking out and speaking up. Words go really well with actions.
I say, let's let Amazon know what we're doing.
Let's talk about it on our blogs, let's let people with louder, more important voices know what's going on. (Hey! Let's make it onto the news). But let's speak for ourselves, too.
Let's tell Amazon ourselves.
Booksquare.com has an open letter.
But let's write it ourselves.
Either later tonight or tomorrow, I can have up here a basic letter to Amazon, but I encourage you to write your own. Let them know what *you* read and what you have read. Let them know that they're ranking books that are more "adult" and "offensive" than Lady Chatterly's Lover. Let them know that this is censorship that their customer-base won't stand for. Back your actions with words.
estuansinterius redone my layout, to one that I prefer. It's not gray, but I've got my Impala and Kerouac. I had the other layout for a while (two years?), so it was time for a change.Amazon is currently failing. Check out #amazonfail on Twitter. On metafilter, from Mark Probst, on Jezebel, and on feministe.
Long story short: Amazon is de-ranking supposed adult products - not vibrators or lube or anal plugs (all of which you can actually buy on Amazon) - but books like Tipping the Velvet, The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability, and Homophobia: A History, as well as other young adult-level books or romances with queer characters.
They *are* keeping the ranking, however, of anti-homosexual books. You know, the ones I'm terrified my super-religious family will one day throw at me - overcome your queer, now with added Jesus.
I hope I don't have to tell you that this is not okay.
I've seen a lot of people talking about boycotting Amazon.
Now, while I'm influenced by the fact that I like to use Amazon for things beyond books (I can buy things like vibrators *and* hard-to-find baking products together on Amazon and I don't want to give that up), I am also more angry than anything.
Sure, I could stop at not buying anything from them. I could probably (and will) find another website to buy things from.
But I've been an angry, angry pansexual lately. I don't want to sit back and say, "I'll let my actions speak for me." At the moment, I feel like simple actions don't cover speaking out and speaking up. Words go really well with actions.
I say, let's let Amazon know what we're doing.
Let's talk about it on our blogs, let's let people with louder, more important voices know what's going on. (Hey! Let's make it onto the news). But let's speak for ourselves, too.
Let's tell Amazon ourselves.
Booksquare.com has an open letter.
But let's write it ourselves.
Either later tonight or tomorrow, I can have up here a basic letter to Amazon, but I encourage you to write your own. Let them know what *you* read and what you have read. Let them know that they're ranking books that are more "adult" and "offensive" than Lady Chatterly's Lover. Let them know that this is censorship that their customer-base won't stand for. Back your actions with words.
