i can just see the cover. twin fabios, tonguing each other...
Posted on 04/12/2009 4:02:16 PM PDT by FourPeas
(UPDATED) As if it wasn't hellacious enough working customer support for Amazon.com on Easter, the online book store's reps must now explain why gay romances (and other books) are too "adult" to rank.
Straight romance like Jackie Collins and straight porn like this book of Playboy centerfolds is still ranked on Amazon.
But not the homosexul stuff: Gay romance publisher Mark Probst noticed hundreds of such books lost their rankings over the past two days, including Transgressions, about a 17th century liaison between a cavalry trooper and a farmer's son, and False Colors, about a 19th century naval lieutenant attracted to his commanding officer.
Probst wrote to Amazon through his publisher's account, and was told
In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude "adult" material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists. Since these lists are generated using sales ranks, adult materials must also be excluded from that feature.
There is now an full-fledged Twitter shitstorm, naturally, and a new, snarky definition for the term "Amazon Rank," spreading virally. It's hard to imagine the Seattle-based retailer sticking by this controversial policy after naming a gay Brit's novel their "Book of the Year."
On the other hand, Amazon must be happy, on some level, to have finally expanded its customer base beyond the sophisticated techno elites, straight through into the American cultural backwaters where this sort of material is remotely offensive, somehow.
So probably the store will lump anything vaguely sexual, Jackie Collins and Playboy included, into a romance/erotica category, which will also be rank banned. And eventually the site will just throw in the towel and outsource its entire filtering operation to the cultural arbiters at Wal-Mart. Why not?
(Excerpt) Read more at gawker.com ...
A cry of discrimination would be if straight porn is sold and gay porn isn’t. both are still sold, just not listed compared to other titles.
And maybe some gay publishers screamed that straight porn ranked way, way too high and couldn’t really be that much more popular. So delisting the ranks was a way of capitulating.
Ho-hum, another whining faggot.
Just another case of trying to shove their PERVERSION onto the general public! The equations they have made between themselves and the race issues is sickening and should NOT be tolerated.
Maybe if the slaughter of millions of innocent children won’t rile us to act then the forcing of acceptance of a sick, demonic lifestyle will!
Finally! Someone showing a little appreciation.
*yawn*. Must be a slow news day over at Bay Windows.
My my, you DO spend a lot of time on “gay” threads.
“My my, you DO spend a lot of time on “gay” threads.”
I like to think of them less as gay, and more as Human Rights threads, thank you very much.
BTW Thanks for noticing, cowboy. ;-)
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If anything, Amazon is, uh, bending over backwards for this genre.
Their crying isn’t about human rights. It’s about using the government to force others to accept perversion as normal.
“gay romance”: a coxymoron.
i can just see the cover. twin fabios, tonguing each other...
I have noticed that when I read articles written by gay men, or short stories, or novels, they always find a way to reference poo.
“There is now an full-fledged Twitter shitstorm...”
I am not kidding. I read a lot, from David Sedaris to San Francisco newspapers etc., and it is really noticeable. I wasn’t looking for it. It just keeps happening.
“It’s about using the government to force others to accept perversion as normal.”
And exactly what pray tell is, dare I say... Normal?
Gay Americans, like each & every other American citizen has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Now, precisely what is it that you don’t understand?
Normal is using the human body the way it was designed to be used. Gay sex causes several serious health problems.
Gay Americans, like each & every other American citizen has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
No one is stopping them. 5% of the population is gay and they are trying to make perverted sex mainstream and force everyone to accept it as normal. And they are using government to do it. They have usurped the language of the civil rights movement. They are not a race. They are a group of people that totally identifies themselves by the way they have sex. That's called hedonistic. Their whole life and identity is based on sexual pleasure.
homosexuals never want to accept the fact that their chosen fetish is still a sexual fetish.
Amazon actually did something good: I shocked!
And they are using government to do it.
EXACTLY, they’re the big government advocates here, not conservatives!
Normal and abby normal
Normal = intended or designed use
abby normal = deviant, debauched, debased, corrupted, depraved, vitiated, used in ways never intended or designed, filth laden, disgusting, loathsome, sickening, nauseous, repulsive, revolting, repugnant, abhorrent, detestable
= Gay
Gay Americans, like each and every other American citizen, already have the same rights every other American has. They do not have the right to yell fire in a crowded theater nor should we have to accept their push to get their foul, obscene, nasty, stomach wrenching, odiously filthy acts and desires to become rights.
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