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	<title>Official Shrub.com Blog &#187; Companies Behaving Badly</title>
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		<title>Update on AmazonFail</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2009-04-14_793</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tekanji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, it has been noted that the de-ranking wasn&#8217;t limited to GLBT issues and erotica, but also notably affected books on disability and sexuality as well as feminist books, books on sexuality, and books on topics such as suicide prevention and rape.
In terms of the massive PR fail that has been going on, Amazon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon censors women and queer people</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2009-04-12_782</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tekanji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-oppression activism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m sure everyone has heard by now, but Amazon has recently made the decision to remove the sales rankings of so-called &#8220;adult&#8221; books in order to ensure that they don&#8217;t show up in some searches (like the default search) and bestseller lists.
Their rationale? The censoring books primarily written by and for queer people (and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Yorker gets a 0 on the Swift-o-Meter</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-07-13_727</link>
		<comments>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-07-13_727#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tekanji</dc:creator>
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Racism is satire when &#8220;progressives&#8221; do it!
I am not a regular reader of The New Yorker, but I have never been a huge fan of their cartoons. Some of them have made me chuckle, some of them have made me roll my eyes, and many more have just provoked a, &#8220;Okay&#8230;&#8221; kind of blah reaction. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debunking the &#8220;profits come first&#8221; myth</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-07-10_724</link>
		<comments>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-07-10_724#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tekanji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have ever criticized an ad campaign, commercial, or anything that&#8217;s even remotely related to marketing for pushing a bigoted viewpoint, you will undoubtedly have come up against the argument that of course the reason the product is being marketed that way is because it&#8217;s more profitable. A company would never do anything to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At this rate, there won&#8217;t be any games left for me to play</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-06-05_717</link>
		<comments>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-06-05_717#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tekanji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been feeling rather unhappy with Capcom for a while, but this takes the cake:
Resident Evil 5 producer Jun Takeuchi tells Kotaku that calls of racial insensitivity haven&#8217;t affected the game&#8217;s design. Takeuchi tells the site that the team didn&#8217;t &#8220;set out&#8221; to make a racist or political statement and he feels there was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give that man a cookie, er, Klondike!</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-06-02_716</link>
		<comments>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-06-02_716#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tekanji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
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Wow, a man refrains from violating the terms of his relationship agreement with his wife? Totally worthy of a reward. Give that man a cookie Klondike! &#60;insert massive eyeroll here&#62;
Actual analysis of Klondike&#8217;s latest series of commercials can be found over at The Hathor Legacy, in sbg&#8217;s post, Normal Behavior Rewarded as Extraordinary.
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		<title>Shame on you, BBC</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-04-24_711</link>
		<comments>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-04-24_711#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tekanji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC has chosen to defend some transphobic comments made by a gay comedian whose show they sponsor. In this clip where he&#8217;s talking about Thomas Beatie, he says: &#8220;If he hasn&#8217;t had genital surgery surely that just makes him a lesbian&#8221; and &#8220;that thing is still a woman&#8221;. 
Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the response [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I may have to stop buying PC games&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-04-07_703</link>
		<comments>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-04-07_703#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tekanji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After one Starforce scare with Dreamfall (which worked out in my favor because Ubisoft dropped the malware due to consumer outcry), and two wastes of money (one due to SecuROM with Sims 2: Bon Voyage, which I&#8217;m going to see if I can ebay for at least part of my money back &#8212; I made [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crecente fights the boy&#8217;s club of gaming&#8230; ORLY?</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-02-06_693</link>
		<comments>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-02-06_693#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tekanji</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies Behaving Badly]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2008-02-06_693</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now, I&#8217;ll be honest here. I think that Brian Crecente is an unprofessional misogynist who doesn&#8217;t have the writing skills to match his journalism education. Given his track record, I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s fit to write articles, much less be put in charge of a majorly influential gaming news site.
Part of this is personal, seeing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exposing the hypocrisy of Unilever&#8217;s targeted marketing</title>
		<link>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2007-11-06_667</link>
		<comments>http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2007-11-06_667#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tekanji</dc:creator>
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Dove and Axe &#8212; which send diametrically opposed messages about women to their target audiences &#8212; are both made by Unilever.  This video juxtaposes the two campaigns in order to raise awareness of the connection between the two.
Via The Hathor Legacy.
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