Quote: (09-10-2018 08:09 PM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:
Quote: (09-10-2018 07:42 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:
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Quote: (09-10-2018 06:46 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:
Quote: (09-10-2018 06:40 PM)Aurini Wrote:
I just got off the phone with Amazon. They said that there were two complaints from verified customers, which put the book into automatic limbo (doesn't explain the other 8 titles). Told them that I'd be boycotting them if the book doesn't return and pulling my novel from their service as well. The supervisor said he'd pass this on to the marketing team.
So if you and I reported 50 Shades of Gay....they'd pull it off too? I know their excuse is BS because I'm sure they received more than 2 reports from the Baptist cuckoos about 50 shades.
Good point. Why don't some of us complain that it violates The Violence Against Women Act?
We should get 5-6 people to do this and see if they pull it out of their site.
But then that means we'd have to buy the book since Amazon considered the opinions from "verified customers".
Good observation. OK, then. Change of plan. Find something you bought -- anything -- and find something offensive about it. Then complain, asking how come Roosh is offensive and that product isn't.
Example: I just went through my old orders and found I'd bought a CD by obscure artist Connie Converse. She supposedly committed suicide. Isn't selling her CD glorifying that and encouraging others to do the same?
Then there's the vintage Gallery magazines I bought from my youth (ban porn!), the German-language Peggy March CDs (Nazi music?), and some early Beach Boys stuff (sexism, American imperialism, non-inclusive, classist, probably racist too).
As you can see, ANYTHING can be offensive. I'll be more than happy to send them a message for EVERY order I ever bought, asking them to explain how it's not offensive.
I'll give you one.
I Will Fucking Give You One.
Get hold of a copy of "In the Realm of the Diamond Queen" by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. (Anthropology book that is on the reading list of nearly ever anthropology/ social sciences department -and uncritically celebrated- in nearly every campus in the US and UK etc.)
I am in Vietnam and broke so I can't get hold of a copy myself.
Go to the index and look up Neo-nate. Not 'baby', not 'child' - Neo-nate. obscure term.
The pages referenced describe how when Tsing was doing fieldwork in an Indonesian Dayak community the men were away working.
Just a few women, including Tsing present.
The young wife of one of the local men gave birth. But the woman wasn't interested in the baby.
The baby was exposed on the ground outside and the grandmother told Tsing
that the baby was 'too soon'. She thought premature? But it wasn't premature.
Then she realised that the majority young women didn't want the baby, the mother of the baby felt the pregnancy was too soon in her young life.
At one point -while the younger women made fun of the baby's appearance and dared each other to touch it- Tsing picked it up and began tending to it. She says (paraphrasing) "I was suddenly struck that I might become responsible for the upkeep and well being going forward of a child that no one one else present wanted."
So she put the baby down.
The other women felt guilt tripped and took a bit more interest.
Then they lost interest.
She was making a difference to how they treated the baby.
A guy turned up and helped for a bit then went away, Tsing backed off helping - afraid of the responsibility of a baby's care it seems - and eventually, sadly, 'inexplicably' an otherwise healthy baby died.
Lowenhaupt-Tsing then goes off in the book on a long ramble about how everything is different from everything else and you never know just how every different person feels.
She then asks when does a human being become a human being anyway. Was the human being that died in their hands really a human being?
Maybe it was just a 'Neo-nate'.
She then documents known cases where African American women have tried to dispose of babies >cough< Neo-nates in garbage cans etc. Who is the state to classify what these beings are or intervene in the conduct of mothers with their offspring?
She ends up blaming the 'patriarchy' for women, including herself, neglect-killing new born babies.
When I first read the book she was an assistant professor. She is now a professor at University of California Santa Cruz UCSC.
https://www.amazon.com/Realm-Diamond-Que...dpSrc=srch
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Tsing )