{"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
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
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