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?
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“Gay” romances are nothing more than sadistic perversion.
THINK ABOUT IT!
lol @ book porn.
A blow for justice.
But the gay romances are still sold on Amazon? they are just not ranked??? (whatever that means)
Is this really a huge problem? If some homo wants to buy a gay erotic novel I am sure he can get it some where else.
Frankly, who cares what they rank? Put the Playboy and other perversion into one catagory and forget it. 90% of the people just don’t have time to worry about stuff like this.
I am truly grateful that there are people out there who are willing to do my thinking for me and make the hard choices of what I should read and not read.
Really, WTF would I do if it weren’t for you diaper sniffers courageously putting yourself daily on the front lines of decency? /sarcasm
No!
I don't want to and you can't make me!
I understand why you can’t and give you a pass.
;)
He can get the gay erotic porno whatever from Amazon. It’s just not ranked on their mainstream best seller list.
This is a fabricated controversy for the gay community to claim “discrimination”.
“I didn’t think it was physically possible both this both sucks and blows at the same time”
-Bart Simpson
Isn’t this ranking based on sales? Perhaps people are not buying gay books. This seems like a stupid thing to complain about...who cares. I have seen threads here from conservatives complaining about this too when the conservative books fall off the chart...perhaps instead of complaining buying a book might be more adventagous. People just love to complain about EVERYTHING.
No one’s telling anyone what to read and what not to read. Get real.
It seems that way.
It may be only a matter of time before Amazon is forced to relent and rate faggot material.
“False Colors” has a release date of April 13, 2009 and the perverts are complaining about its “ranking” already?
They would also be offended by the realistic low rankings too so who cares?
At a nearby Barnes & Noble, there is an entire gay & lesbian section, yet I have to go somewhere else to find one measly copy of Louis Hunter's "Steamboats on the Western Rivers" (which is a definitive study). Can I file a lawsuit?
Mr. niteowl77
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 think I know what the problem is.
The ‘ranked’ is how many is sold. Not enough are sold to produce a good ‘rank’.
Second....they harped on Jackie Collins....I have never read her but I know queers. More than likely Jackie Collins’ books are soft porn at best. The queers....do not know the meaning of the word “soft porn”. Everything they do sexually is hard core porn. From doing it at a Queer pride parade or in the men’s room at the airport it is hard core porn. So therefor their books would reflect it. Yes I could see that Amazon.com would be quite upset with this. They are after all a BOOK store they are not that XXX Book store that you pass on US Route 60 on the way home from work. Then again...you all forget....the queers think this behavior is NORMAL because it is normal TO THEM, just not to us. Now they are all in a hissy fit because their books are not selling, and are labeled hard core porn, and they just don’t have a clue as to why.
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.
“nor should we have to accept their push to get their foul, obscene, nasty, stomach wrenching, odiously filthy acts and desires to become rights.”
You see that is your problem... In free society you don’t get the right to tell other people how to live, nor do you have a right to be offended if it impinges on the rights of others who are exercizing their right to freedom, furthermore no one really cares how you feel, me included.
No, that isn't an option because Amazon admits that they aren't ranking the books on purpose. Amazon under fire (^)
FTA:
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.
Freedom does not mean license to do whatever you want. Yelling fire in a crowded room, murder, and obscenity are still illegal. Also, you can’t discriminate against religious beliefs according to our Constitution.
The founders of the same document you cited never made provision to protect the filthy acts of a few. They did however protect the religious right of many so that they would not to have to go along with those disgusting practices.
As far as how the reprobate bottom dwellers live, they can do whatever they wish in the discomforts of their own infested lairs, just as long as others don’t have to deal with their deviant behaviors.
That poster has now been banned.
“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. “
The problem is...with the gays....is that..like I said before...that is “normal” for them. They do not see it as abnormal. They do not realize that their behavior is shocking to the rest of society. They do not realize that when they have open sex in central park or a men’s restroom it makes the rest of us barf all over the place. What they do, to us is beyond obscene, but to them...it is just natural. Maybe if we barfed in their direction more it would help?
You're incorrect on at least one point. People *do* have the right to be offended by others' actions. The thought police aren't yet that prevalent in our republic, not that the LGBT lobby isn't trying.
This action of Amazon's, whether or not they're now calling it a glitch, has nothing to do with the government. It's a private website making a choice on how to run its business just as FreeRepublic is a private website and limits various things. In a free society you don't get the right to tell websites what they must contain.
The last part of your post is truly insightful: furthermore no one really cares how you feel, me included. It fits when I hear people complaining about their nonexistent "human rights" when it comes to whether Amazon does or does not list the sales ratings for LGBT books.
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