Hey, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? But y’all still remember what an open thread is for, I’m sure. Remember that self-linking is not only allowed, but encouraged.
CARNIVALS
The F Word presents: The Carnival of Feminists!
African Women’s Blog presents The First African Women’s Carnival
100 Little Dolls presents The Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction And Fantasy Fans
BlackProf.com: A Census of African-American Blogs
Not really a carnival, but it still seems worth spreading the word (or link) around. Professor Overton is asking folks to help him compile a list of blogs “in which at least 20% of the posts address issues of concern to the African-American community.”
NEW TO THE BLOGROLL
New Blog: Our Bodies Our Blog
I’m really excited about this blog, written by one of my favorite bloggers: Christine Cupaiuolo, of the late lamented Ms Magazine blog. Make it a daily read, is my advice.
New Blog: The Silence Of Our Friends
Excellent new anti-racism blog focusing on racism among progressives and lefties.
New Blog: Feminish
Well-written blog by a Euro-feminist. There’s been a really cool series lately about a kick-ass women’s march in France in 1789 (who knew?): Start here and then follow the links at the bottom of the post for more.
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The Republic of T: How The Bush Administration, By Defunding The UN Population Fund While Pushing Abstinence Only, Harms Thousands Of African Girls And Women
This, more than any other calamity, is why I think the marginal difference between having a Democrat or a Republican in the White House matters a lot. Yes, they all suck, but the Republicans – with their seemingly endless willingness to sacrifice science, evidence and black women to the demands of their base – suck worse.
Abyss To Hope: Consent Is Not A Default Condition
Brilliant discussion of “consent,” bouncing off some of the recent “Alas” discussion.
Capitalism Bad, Tree Pretty: Critique of the “Privilege” Lists
I just don’t have much time for analysing the world through privilege. It so often leads to individualistic non-action – to someone interupting a conversation to say “but even having this conversation is a privilege.” On an individual level I think it’s important to know where you come from, to know what you’ve been given, and to analyse how you benefit from this system. I absolutely think that everyone has a responsibility to not use the privilege, and power, society gives us – over people we know. But you can’t give up privilege as an individual – you can just fight to end it by working collectively.
Creative Destruction: Do White Men Really Benefit From Privilege?
Blackprof.com: Black Folks And The Same-Sex Marriage “Analogy”
Official Shrub.com: A Deeper Look At “Minority Spaces”
What is a minority space? Is it the same as a “safe space”? Are feminist blogs minority spaces? These and other questions…
A few fat-positive articles from the press:
The American obsession with weight loss is unrealistic and harmful
East Bay Express: Fat! Fit? Fabulous!
Peppy article about Health At Every Size activists.
BBC: F*** Off I’m Fat!
Article about an interesting-sounding BBC documentary “by 21-stone comedian Ricky Grover” which takes a fat-activist perspective.
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Fatshadow: I’ve Been Thinking A Lot About The Intersection Of Fat And Disability
Feminist Law Professors: Misogyny Runs Amok In Unregulated Small Courts
A mother of four… went to court… seeking an order of protection against her husband, who the police said had choked her, kicked her in the stomach and threatened to kill her. The justice, Donald R. Roberts, a former state trooper with a high school diploma, not only refused, according to state officials, but later told the court clerk, “Every woman needs a good pounding every now and then.”
Body Impolitic: “Little Miss Sunshine,” Beauty Pageants, And The Sexual Exploitation Of Children
Pandagon: Right-Wing Censorship Follies!
First, a schoolteacher is fired for bringing children on a class trip to an art museum (scary nudes)! And a PBS Sprout actress is fired by the “Comcast” owned network because she appeared seven years ago in a couple of parodies of abstinence-only education. Oh, and some Fundy mom wants Harry Potter removed from school libraries because it’s too witchy. Plus, Republican Senate candidate Katherine Harris says that her opponent isn’t qualified to be in the Senate because he’s not Christian enough, which is her way of saying that only right-wingers can be real Christians.
Whosedaughter: How Anonymous Donor Conception Harms Donor Conceived Children
Moderately Insane: An Analysis Of Oregon’s Rape Law
Lawyer (and “Alas” reader) Sailorman examines Oregon’s rape law and finds that it is ridden with loopholes for rapists. See also his follow-up post, asking for suggestions for how it should be rewritten.
Bitch | Lab: How Changing Expectations For Marriage (Among Other Factors) Increased The Divorce Rate
TMP Cafe: How Democrats can win without the Southern states.
Republicans Are Hoping Sick, Hateful Appeals To Homophobia Will Save Them From The Foley Scandal
Here, here, here, here, here, and here. As Equality Loudoun, in an excellent post, writes, “we’re getting a good idea of what’s wrong with the moral compass of the anti-gay right. They don’t have one.”
The Republic Of T has many more related links. And see also this related, excellent post…
Box Turtle Bulletin: Homo-Hating Christians Distort Social Science To Claim That Gay Men Are A Danger To Boys
Beautiful example of someone doing the research to debunk the hateful right-wing lies. Curtsy: Pandagon.
Think Progress: Afghanistan Five Years Later
Reappropriate: On Frustration With Dealing With White Liberals
What’s frustrating is that this fanatic adherence to superficial tolerance is almost as close-minded as the most fervent KKK member; so desperately are these Whites afraid of being labelled a racist that even suggesting an open discussion on race terrifies and frustrates them.
Echidne: On The Amish Massacre, And On Hating Girls And Women
Effect Measure: The Amish’s Rational Response To Mass Murder
Their reaction was extraordinary and deserves the praise it receives. At the same time, though, it is a damning indictment of the rest of us, that we should see this perfectly rational act as so unusual.
Title IX Blog: There Should Be Paternity Leave For College Football Players
Molly Saves The Day: A Feminist Reading Of Disney’s The Little Mermaid
Racialicious: Color Blind Casting Benefits Non-White Actor!
It’s sort of a “man bites dog” story.
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill: The Ten Most Overrated White People
Let’s Talk Babies: Elective C-Sections Linked With Increased Infant Mortality
But at least some hospitals made more money.
Womens ENews: The Debate Over Susan B. Anthony’s Anti-Abortion Opinions
Ballastexistenz: Regarding “I’d Rather Die Than Be A _____!”
Barbara Ehrenreich: Could You Afford To Be Poor?
Boston Review: Six Ways To Reform Democracy
Reappropriate: Free Yunjim Kim!
Study Finds Daily Show As Substantive As Network News
“Interestingly, the average amounts of video and audio substance in the broadcast network news stories were not significantly different than the average amounts of visual and audio substance in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart stories about the presidential election,” Fox writes in the study. (Curtsy: Republic of T).
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May I link-whore too? Here is my link. “Honest reviews” for you all women-lovers:
That’s hilarious: MLF are the initials of the French Womens’ Lib (Mouvement de Libération des Femmes). Ha ha.
You know, when I said that by using the expression “link-whoring”, you were making yourself a “blog pimp”, I didn’t think you would ever prove me right.
As someone who started reading you before you named your blog Alas, as one of those who started identifying as pro-/feminists under your influence, I feel betrayed: you sold out to our worst enemies.
Heart says whatever needs to be said here. There is no excuse for what you did.
Disappointed doesn’t begin to cover it: why should feminist women trust any pro-feminist man when you the well-known “male feminist blogger” behave that way?
Alas, a blog is dead to me.
Heart would have a case if there would be a link either from the blog or from Barry’s cartoon page to the stuff you linked.
Never mind, there actually is a small link in Alas, a blog runs on WordPress blogging and review software.
I don’t think I’ll be responding to Jimmy Ho, except to point out this past post of mine.
You won’t be responding to Jimmy, but what about all the other blogs that you KNOW have been posting about this. I guess you have absolutely NO responsibility or obligation to any of the readers that have made your site what it is.
A skilled webby like yourself can find these blogs on your own.
Thanks for nothing.
Amp didn’t sell his blog. He sold a domain name that his blog is found under. I only rarely went to http://www.amptoons.com; I go to http://www.amptoons.com/blog. His blog is completely unchanged, so the premise of Heart’s arguments is false.
“Black Folks and the Same-Sex ‘analogy'” would make sense if you believe that sexual orientation is equivalent to race. But many people don’t. Why he doesn’t address that in his article (other than apparently calling such people “bigots” without further foundation) I don’t know, since it’s the source of the issue.
Don’t be too quick to jump on the “Teacher fired for taking kids to art museum where they saw nudes” bandwagon. There’s been a couple of threads on Free Republic on this (initially in favor of the teacher) that have found that this may be a case where the teacher is actually being fired for good reason and she’s trying to pin it on this instead.
Jimmy Ho (Quoting “Reviews”:
What really bothers me about that particular product is the one the right. Just what is that colour anyway? Rigor-mortis grey?
Uh, fucked up the link. Seems kinda appropriate somehow.
My God. Amp, you are Dead To Him! the pathos! the dwama!
well, as Marx (not Karl, the important one) always said: then leave in a huff. And if you don’t want to leave in a huff, you can leave in a minute and a huff. And if you don’t want to leave in a minute and a huff, you can leave in a taxi.
you know, I can totally feel some peoples’ pain; it’s not as though Amp has ever accomodated their demands i mean reasonable requests about how to run his blog and what to call himself and what to talk about.
and i am sure that i missed all the places where these fine people who took it upon themselves to um strongly encourage Amp run his blog the way they thought proper offered financial help, like, ever.
anyway, i’m sure it’s a moot point, because clearly that would have made no difference; obviously Amp “sold out” not because he, like, needed the money to run the place, but because he is EVOL.
well, so am i, so that means nothing really. i know. i know.
VIVA the PATRIARCHY!! VIVA!!! i say!! YAY! for the PRON! OUR SINISTER AGENDA IS NOW REVEALED! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!
now let’s go kill some puppies and eat ’em!
Well, I’m not fully convinced by the critique, though I find most actually existing porn (including the stuff linked from this site) to be hateful and gross, I do find it strange that Amp hasn’t responded to the critics either on their blogs or here.
The most compelling part of their arguement is that the high ranking Amp banked was in part generated by strongly anti-porn feminsits (along with anti-misogynist porn feminists) who contribued as guest bloggers and commenters. They also argue that Amps rank was built on his reputation as a feminist. I’m not too familiar wiht Amps stance on porn, but I dont think its entirely unreasonable to ask how his decision to sell his highly-ranked domain to a porn link-farmer fits into his understanding of his own feminism and positionon on porn. The September announcement didn’t do that.
belledame222:
well, as Marx (not Karl, the important one)
LOL! You are hereby put on formal notice that I’m stealing that line and will use it without attribution.
http://hugoboy.typepad.com/hugo_schwyzer/2006/10/ampersand_male_.html
http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/?p=411
http://sourduck.blogspot.com/2006/10/alas-porn-site.html
http://laurelin.wordpress.com/2006/10/10/alas-a-sell-out/
http://viv.id.au/blog/?p=88
http://womensspace.wordpress.com/2006/10/08/the-revolution-will-be-commodified-alternatives-to-selling-feminist-websites-and-blogs-to-the-man/
Above are links to the critical blogs I’ve read. The more I think about it, the more I think they deserve a response, first because they are pretty convincing, but I enjoy reading this blog, so I’d prefer not to be convinced and second because some of the critics are themselves previous guest bloggers here (I thnk), so you would expect them to be feminist opinions Amp at least respects enough to debate/address
[snort] Heart’s fan club is upset with Amp. They say if he’d just consulted with them first before selling, they wouldn’t be so unhappy with them now. Sure, I believe it. And I believe that tomorrow I’ll win the lottery, too.
To be fair, I’m pretty skeeved out by the stuff at the bottom of the link. However, if I need money and sell a block of retail space that I’m the owner of, do I have any power to prevent an adult business from moving in once I’ve sold it ? I may still be a tenant in that space, but I’m no longer the owner and I don’t determine what else is sold in the rest of the space. At any rate, I am sure that the taint of pornography is on me, too. Merely from my association with Amp. Later this year, I might have an art show in a shop owned by somebody who lives, shall we say, an unconventional lifestyle. Never mind that I’m trying to earn a living and that’s why I’d like to have this art show. I urge the Hearts and funnies and ginmars of the world to boycott my work and to stop supporting it and to stop sending me money. Oh, wait. None of you has ever looked at my work or supported it, verbally or financially. So I guess that part’s already taken care of. :p
In short, most of the folks who already hated Amp still hate him, and most of the folks who didn’t, still don’t. Knock me over with a feather.
I’m sorry to see you go, though, Jimmy.
http://angryforareason.blogspot.com/2006/10/no-really-im-feminist.html
http://ginmar.livejournal.com/
Sorry. “They wouldn’t be unhappy with HIM.” Now the cosmic balance of misspellings is restored on behalf of whoever it was who thought Amp should have “gotten a paper round [sic]” before he sold his site. [sarcasm] She’s right, Amp. There is this thing called wage work. Haven’t you heard ? Amp, have you ever worked a day in your life at a real job ? [/sacrcasm]
Just to say, I’m not a radfem or particularly a fan of Heart or Gin. I dont think Hugo falls into that camp either, nor reclusive leftist. I dont think porn is the Most Important Problem Facing Women Today. But I also dont think making mony from women-hating porn is a great thing morally or politically, and Im certain its not a feminist thing.
I wonder what Maia thinks abou this, largely because her feminism is one I really look up to.
http://witchywoo.wordpress.com/2006/10/10/fuckery-and-betrayal/
Ron F;
Heart’s argument isn’t that the problem is changes to the blog. You’ve misidentified the premise of her arguement. I’d say the central premise is that selling your google rank (built on a feminist repuation) to advertisers for hardcore pornography is an anti-feminist thing to do.
can we just [/sarcasm?] That would help, I think.
curious writes:
I suppose to others it’s splitting hairs, but I thought that Amp received a one-time payment for the sale. It’s not as if every time another porn site review appears, he gets another ten bucks. Am I missing something here ? At any rate, I’m not trying to attack curious. I feel conflicted about the issue because porn is everywhere, and it’s tough to escape its reach. I’ve thought about submitting work to the Portland Mercury, for instance. Like most hip weeklies, it’s full of porn ads and that makes me hesitant. It does have some good political coverage, however, and I think my work would have the right look for the space, assuming I could get anyone to look at it.
I love the idea of staying pure, but the folks who’d get on my back about not staying pure don’t have the money or inclination to buy groceries. Probably not the will, either, considering how often we argue. Maybe it’s time for me to turn in my feminist card, if I can’t afford the membership fees. :/
Arrgh. “Buy MY groceries.” Can I get a double shot of espresso over here, pronto ? :o
No sarcasm ? curious, you might as well ask my cat not to stare at the birds outside so much.
No sarcasm ? curious, you might as well ask my cat not to stare at the birds outside so much.
yeah, I should watch those glass houses, rocks…or maybe just the cats. :)
I am a block quote nincompoop
Anyway, I’m not sure the hair split works, becuase while Amp may not make any more money from this stuff, the advertiser and pornographer will. I dont understand thow this works that well, but the argument is basically that what Amp sold was the google cred created by all of our previous and continued existence here at a feminist blog debating feminism and other important things. Like cats.
My understanding might be dead wrong though. This is why I think it would be good to hear from Amp.
As of now though, I think the deal seems bad for feminism, if nothing else, but I don’t plan to stop reading Alas. Just because I like to read it, and its not lik e I don’t read lots of things that claim to be feminist and aren’t (Dan Savage, books for school, White House Press Releases on Afghanistan…)
It seems the underlying resentment is based on disclosure. Which is to say: who knows what people would or would not have done to “save” amptoons from the Evil Porn Demons? We’ll never really know, because AFAIK Amp didn’t try to find out. And by the time anyone else knew, it was too late.
So when I see this:
That misses the issue entirely. Not many people offer financial help to those who they don’t think need it. Without a Paypal link, an ad campaign, a cross-blog support post for those who would have supported him, who’s to know?
Porn isn’t the be all end all issue for me, so I won’t leave on that basis. But I confess that the more I read on the issue, the more something seems wrong with the picture. I think it is pretty odd and a bit offensive for someone with Amp’s stance, credentials, and connection, not to TRY to avoid the porn thing.
A single “I’m going to sell amptoons to a random person unless I raise $10,000 or get a better offer from someone who wants to keep it profeminist” post would have silenced 90% of the critics. (the remaining “better to live in abject poverty than to sell out” folks could be ignored) I really have no idea why Amp didn’t do it.
It just seems….. sneaky. And odd.
While I think your point is well taken, Sailorman, I’d also like to point out that the vast majority of people who are complaining about this are the same folks who have been berating Amp for being insufficiently feminist for literally years now.
It’s not that I think posting an “Alas, A Blog is in financial trouble! Help!” post would have been a bad thing, but nor do I think it would have meant Amp taking less crap, either.
The folks who want to demonize Amp will demonize him regardless.
A&P–
upthread I think I pointed out that its not just the radfems who already dont like Amp for vearious reasons, though Heart definitely took the lead. I should have phrsaed that previous commend differently–when I said I’m not a fan, I really just meant hat I’m not, myself, a subscriber to radical feminism. But I read heart and gin, which is how I found out about this issue.
curiousgyrl:
He has. He posted this link.
Are there any specific questions you don’t think that addresses?
Here’s a supportive blog:
http://just.shelleypowers.com/diversity/just-walk-away/
For what it’s worth, we’ve discussed different aspects at this here.
I found that Achilles and P… are about right in this: the people who are demonizing Amp seem to be ones who really dislike him anyway. But there are people who do, and have some concerns about it — not to the point about making Amp into a demon.
The issue is: where does community end, and our own private space begin? I dislike the thought that I have to ‘ask’ my readers before making a decision. It’s my space. But others believe that this is more of a community, and therefore you have obligations.
Goes beyond this incident, and an interesting discussion.
I do think these new ‘radfem’ or whatever the heck they are need to learn to how to debate. Suppressing of opposite or dissenting views is contrary to true feminism.
curiousgyrl –
Oh, absolutely. I don’t think that Amp’s only critics are those who were already disposed to hurling crap at him, just that the overwhelming majority of his critics are.
Like I said, I don’t think it would have been a bad idea for Amp to ask us for financial help, I’m just saying that regardless of what he does, these folks have already made up their minds about him.
My thanks to everyone who has posted, both to criticize me and to defend me.
In response to some of the comments here and elsewhere, I’ve opened a new, feminists-only thread for discussion of the sell-out.
[snort] Heart’s fan club is upset with Amp. They say if he’d just consulted with them first before selling, they wouldn’t be so unhappy with them now. Sure, I believe it. And I believe that tomorrow I’ll win the lottery, too.
I have my issues with Heart et al, and those conflicts have touched on both porn and their relationship with Amp. However, I agree with their position here, even if I also happen to be skeptical of the amount of support they would have been willing to offer. (Which is entirely theirs to give or withhold, mind–just not to pretend against a long history of opposition.) This was a bad idea, and offensive to a lot of people for genuine reasons.
Daran;
Yes, I dont think that post addresses his critics who point out that his sale is manifestly not at all like hosting his blog on blogger or word press–the buyer didnt buy the domian in order to sell Amp a place to blog. They bought it in order to use Amp’s google ranking inorder to specifically drive traffic to and make money off of porn. Amp barely addresses the porn issue in that post except to say that he has no control over what the buyer will use the doman for now, which is a dodge, becuase he only lost control And it seems clear from that post that Amp knew the sale was primarily about porn when he negotiated it.
Amp has also not answered a key subpoint (which I’d like to hear the other side of) that what he sold–teh google rating–is not hte product of his work alone, but based on his feminist cred via comments, cobloggers, etc. The idea being that while amptoons is unqusetionably legally his to sell, what makes it valuable isnt morally or politically his to sell to the porn biz. I could be convinced the other way, but I haven’t heard Amps view of that argument.
So yes, I think Amp has not addressed the main issues. Though re-reading it again made me a little sad; he obviously feels bad and it seems like theres not much he can do now.
Daran–
your link doesnt work. I tried to read that earlier from a trackback on hearts blog, but couldnt get there that time either…maybe its me.
that should say;
“which is a dodge, becuase he only lost control after he sold the domain.”
sorry I missed that new thread. I’ll head there.
curiousgyrl:
I agree with you. Obviously it’s better to raise specific criticisms based on what he said.
Amp has said that he doesn’t understand in detail how it works. Basically every link from every webpage transmits “link-juice” to the linked page, which Google uses to calculate that page’s rank. Amptoons receives incoming links from other feminist websites, but also links back to them. Being a huge site, it almost certainly gives out more link juice than it takes in.
So yes, I think Amp has not addressed the main issues. Though re-reading it again made me a little sad; he obviously feels bad and it seems like theres not much he can do now.
They work for me. They were just to Amp’s earlier post, and Shelly’s post.
Amp, I would not worry about it. If a few links to legal porn by a site that is hosting your blog gets peoples panties in a twist, maybe you just shouldn’t worry about them. Maybe they need to get off the internet altogether, since porn is about everywhere within three clicks of any site. That includes lesbian porn, playgirl, and other women driven sites.
I tried looking up chinese crested dogs for a bet, and ended up in some asian boy on boy site…..you can’t go far without finding it.
If these folks dislike it so much, why weren’t they donating to your site to help you?
Geez. You work your butt off here, and while I disagree with nearly everything you have to say, you have earned your place.
Thick skins, people, time to develope thick skins.
curiousgyrl, thanks for your comment.
the biscuit queen, talk about hitting something from somewhere you never expected to: I once searched on “hemp rope” so I could buy it for my Boy Scout Troop to do lashings and knots and build towers, etc.
Did you know that hemp rope is very soft and flexible as well as being very strong? Apparently everyone practicing S & M and B & D does. And they are very glad to put pictures up on how it’s used on their home pages. They sell it, too, so adding “sale” to the search criteria does no good. Yow. I’m glad I didn’t assign this project to one of the kids ….
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>Did you know that hemp rope is very soft and flexible as well as being very strong?
Itchy, though.
per Sailorman: what Achilles said.
and also: what people read as “sneaky” I read as “avoidant of conflict.”
i.e. trying to please people.
Ironically enough resulting in both the numerous accomodations to certain feminists’ -demands- –even before this i was marvelling that Heart felt entitled to ask for separate threads for her and hers -here-, especially when she had her -very own space;- i’m sure there’s some cosmic rationale, but, egh–and the reluctance, i would guess, to really go all out and -ask- for money.
squeaky wheel gets the grease. working up enough money via reader donations probably takes a lot more aggression and -self- -marketing than simply selling the domain and it’s done.
and really: now Heart is going on about how she never really trusted Amp anyway, but one of the main reasons she -had- done is because he -didn’t- ask for money.
i’m still trying to parse that one, tbh. apparently he was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t.
but you know. i can sympathize a bit i guess with people who are strongly anti-porn and believe that now their work has gone to drive up the hits of a porn site; if that’s actually how it works. i am a technical luddite and…yeah, i guess i’m not invested enough in the difference to find out for myself, sorry. i support Amp. I don’t love that sort of mainstream porn; it’s offensive, sure; on the other hand, it looks to me like…well, in terms of racism and sexism? It depends how much more you weight porn qua porn than other media, i think, perhaps. and…well, others have said it all already anyway.
and then, too, it’s gotten -so- overwrought -so- quickly, not a surprise, but damn. i mean, i get that one mightn;t want to be connected to porn; at the same time, i don’t think simply writing lots of stuff on the page (which, any particular individual, you know, may or may not have actually -helped- drive up the hits. just notin’).
just, you know. I don’t see Amp as “sneaky.” I think, and I was saying this, ironically enough, just before this hit the fan, in a different context, that more directness would in general probably serve both his readers and him better.
but I’m not gonna bash him anymore for it.
bottom line for me here is, and this’ll probably make Certain People howl even more than the rest of it, insult to injury, but: if anything i think Amp could stand to be a little -more- selfish. as in: hello. needs to take care of himself; as has been pointed out, he doesn’t -owe- people . maybe it came to this partly because, you know, some people, they tend to put that off or on the back burner for whatever reason.
and so, the answer is what: more guilt? fuck that. i mean, if it’s a process some people genuinely need to go through because they -want- to stay but need to work this anger, hurt out, then sure, i get that; won’t get in the way.
but for people who already were, let’s face it, -using- this blog as much as they’re claiming they are (as always) the used and betrayed ones: just go, then. seriously. i’m sure he’ll/we’ll be punished more than enough by the loss of your scintillating presence, really.
Ah, and then your work here will be done, right Belledame?
And Amp, you also know which bloggers will leave as a result of this sale. Is this the plan? A Kos style purge?
Yes, because if there’s anything this whole mess proves, it’s that I’m a very cunning person who always forsees the consequences of my choices.
It’s true. I’m totally leaving now because belledame thinks I should. No, I really mean it this time. Don’t try and stop me, Amp. :p
Muhahahahaha!!
today Amp’s blog, tomorrow the WORLD, PINKY!
Amp,
Pardon the clumsiness of my earlier comment.
Of course it was silly to accuse you of purposely selling your site to get rid of self-described “radical feminists” and others who hate porn.
But you had to have known the sale would lead to a virtual walk-out. And, despite your feigned ignorance, you’re obviously ok with that.
“Obviously ok…”
Yeah, it’s a dance in the street when people bail on your space and call you every name in the book.
You know, I respect the opinions of those who have liked this blog in the past and are now upset because they feel it’s a conflict of interest to keep posting here. Or those who feel like they could have helped Amp find some alternative to selling out if he’d only thought of speaking to them first. What I don’t respect is people who are simply using the sell-out as one more excuse to vent their spleens against somebody they didn’t like in the first place.
I don’t believe that if Amp had written a post two months ago saying, “My financial situation is very bad, and I’m thinking of selling the domain name to a pron marketer if nobody has any better ideas” the latter group would have behaved much differently. There would have been a big hue and cry about how Amp was “blackmailing” feminists or “getting big bucks on their backs like a pimp” and not telling the truth about Alas’ problems and blah blah blah. I’m guessing there would have been the same walk-outs, from that group at any rate.
But none of that matters, because either way he’d be happy happy happy that the space was losing readers. Frankly gayle, if I thought that little of any blog host anywhere, I wouldn’t be posting in their space. Why are you still posting here ?
And despite my own opportunistic spleen-venting, I actually agree with ms. xeno here, believe it or not.
[staggers]
belledame, it’s the end of civilization as we know it.
[plotz]
:D