Stupid, disguisting and unfair
Apr. 12th, 2009 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fpbRight. Amazon have just lost a customer.
http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/11992.html
This may surprise you, but I am appalled and disgusted. So far as I can see, this attacks anything with homosexual content, including plenty of non-explicit material, and plenty of major literature. As a fan of Mary Renault, I regard the whole thing as an insult. And why, for Heaven's sake, single out homosexual material? Why not Histoire d'O? Why not Burton's version of the Arabian Nights? There is an awful lot of stuff here I would neither buy nor recommend, but it is impossible to see this as anything but a burst of irrational homophobia. And when you hear that from me, you know that there is something seriously wrong.
EDITED IN: I have signed an online petition on the matter (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/119673661), with the following comment:
For the record, I am a conservative, straight, Catholic male and my opinions on pornography are not favourable. I however find your policy demeaning, insulting, illiterate (if you ban homosexual content from your sales figures, where will you place Plato, Virgil and Leonardo da Vinci?) and hypocritical (straight pornography seems to be acceptable). I warmly suggest you forget it, because if you hope to get points from conservatives for this kind of behaviour, you have my assurance that you won't.
EDITED IN:
...According to the most recent press release, Amazon "does not have a family-friendly policy" (I'll grant them that!) and it is all due to a glitch. I wonder whether such a glitch would have elimitated items to do with, say, chess, toponomastics, or platelminths.
http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/11992.html
This may surprise you, but I am appalled and disgusted. So far as I can see, this attacks anything with homosexual content, including plenty of non-explicit material, and plenty of major literature. As a fan of Mary Renault, I regard the whole thing as an insult. And why, for Heaven's sake, single out homosexual material? Why not Histoire d'O? Why not Burton's version of the Arabian Nights? There is an awful lot of stuff here I would neither buy nor recommend, but it is impossible to see this as anything but a burst of irrational homophobia. And when you hear that from me, you know that there is something seriously wrong.
EDITED IN: I have signed an online petition on the matter (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/119673661), with the following comment:
For the record, I am a conservative, straight, Catholic male and my opinions on pornography are not favourable. I however find your policy demeaning, insulting, illiterate (if you ban homosexual content from your sales figures, where will you place Plato, Virgil and Leonardo da Vinci?) and hypocritical (straight pornography seems to be acceptable). I warmly suggest you forget it, because if you hope to get points from conservatives for this kind of behaviour, you have my assurance that you won't.
EDITED IN:
...According to the most recent press release, Amazon "does not have a family-friendly policy" (I'll grant them that!) and it is all due to a glitch. I wonder whether such a glitch would have elimitated items to do with, say, chess, toponomastics, or platelminths.
