Weighing in on Amazon's Fail

[mishaday]

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

This first popped up on my radar from Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, where the authorial outrage of delisting triumphed, and only after did my flist explode with the GLBTQ outrage.

So this is about American's uneasiness with GLBTQ issues, but it's also about that same uneasiness with sex in general, and corporate shortsightedness by making that squeamishness policy.

At this point I haven't made a decision about boycotting Amazon. For one, they're local, and for another, they really haven't had a chance to pony up the excuses yet. (I bet they're a fun workplace to be this fine Seattle morning.) The East Coast must be frothing by now, but we've barely woken up yet.

Comments

[solcita.livejournal.com]

A friend who works there says she has seen the reason it happened, it was dumb but absolutely not deliberate. I believe her.

[unmisha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, stupidity trumps malice :)