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Dear Amazon
I am writing to express my displeasure that your website has dropped a large number of books related to LBGT issues from your sales rankings. I understand that this is purportedly to remove “adult” content from easy view. However, I find it profoundly disturbing that Amazon feels that books like “Daddy’s Roommate” by Michael Willhaite […]
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Tags: Amazon, amazonfail, Angry Letters, Bigotry, Bisexual, Censorship, Gay, Homophobia, Internet shopping, LBGTQ, Lesbian, Transsexual
First, there was this advert from the US for a combination razor/bikini trimmer, the Schick Quattro Trimstyle for Women:
Filed under: Advertisements, Corporations, Feminism & Womanism, Health, Media, Women | Leave a Comment
Tags: Advertising, Beauty, Feminism & Womanism, Grooming, Quattro, Racism, Razors, Sexism, Shaving, Wilkinson Sword, Women
Flights of insanity
I’m back from my holiday, which was great. I’ll probably write a little bit about it this weekend. But first, some therapeutic ranting. In January, I start planning a trip to China with K. We arrange dates, and I clear the time off with my supervisor. I ring the only English-speaking travel agent I know […]
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Tags: Airlines, Asia, Customer Service, Helplines, Travel
Are all mermaids prostitutes?
Starbucks are coming under fire again, it seems. Not, this time, for their encroachment on high streets all over the world, their attempts to drive out independent coffee shops, or their representation of everything that is perceived to be wrong with globalisation. Not for their opposition to labour unionisation or their occasionally law-infringing workplace policies. […]
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Tags: Controversy, Logo, Starbucks, USA
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