{"id":3946,"date":"2011-03-22T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.badreputation.org.uk\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2011-03-22T09:00:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T09:00:42","slug":"found-feminism-amazon-users-and-feminist-tags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badreputation.org.uk\/2011\/03\/22\/found-feminism-amazon-users-and-feminist-tags\/","title":{"rendered":"Found Feminism: Amazon users and feminist tags"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week it’s a somewhat snarky – but no less amusing for it – Found Feminism picked up by our very own Stephen B.<\/p>\n

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tags: not just for titles and authors!<\/p><\/div>\n

Clicky here<\/a> to see the explosive tag cloud on Amazon for a pseudo-science book about “the private activities of millions of men and women around the world”.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

I like that a selection of predominantly internet-based feminist thought (can haz meme plz?) is being used to kick up a righteous fuss over what is by all accounts a pile of terrible tosh not worth the paper it’s printed on. It’s a great example of theory-into-action: the fact that tagging is used on Amazon to\u00a0 organise and categorise books means that these tags help users identify and avoid anti-feminist writing.<\/p>\n

My personal favourites in the tag cloud include mansplaining<\/a>, gender essentialism<\/a>, and transphobia<\/a>.<\/p>\n