Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-19-2010

[andrewducker]

• Klingon invasion of Scotland on the way
  (tags: scotland startrek)
• Why Ben Goldacre is battling it out with Gillian McKeith again
  (tags: science libel uk)
• Flu jab could be replaced by skin patch
  Less painful, more effective, but I'd be worried about letting people do it at home, because I'm fairly sure a large chunk of them wouldn't.
  (tags: vaccination uk technology)
• The British Government's guide to torturing children.
  (tags: prison abuse children violence humanrights uk)
• HG Wells writing competition demands handwriting, no science fiction; no one applies
  (tags: writing competition EpicFail)
• Every generation complains about its children
  (tags: children society history)
• Germans throw a 40 mile long picnic
  (tags: germany party picnic)
• Percentage of population going to university didn't actually rise under Labour.
  (tags: education politics uk labour)
• Cosplay photoshopping
  (tags: photoshop cosplay photography anime)
• Why you'll find Jeanette Winterson filed under "lgbt" rather than "fiction"
  (tags: fiction lgbt marketing)
• Omega imbalance can make obesity inheritable
  (tags: health diet obesity nutrition omega3)
• How minor differences between the genders get magnified on the playground
  (tags: school gender feminism)
• The case against women bishops in the Church of England, reduced to seven words
  (tags: christianity funny religion sexism)
• Roman Polanski Reviews 'Hannah Montana'
  (tags: funny satire film review)

Comments

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

I can't read the Erotic review link at work because everything to do with sex is obviously wrong and must be blocked. However, since when is Winterson filed under LGBT rather than Fiction? Not in any bookshop I've been into.

Presumably the wider point is that LGBT (and Black) sections of the bookshop are ghettoising and I agree with this. I do wonder if the books they contain would be stocked with out them though.

[andrewducker]

Sadly, I can't look at it either, or I'd pass on some of the detail!

The gist, as far as I can remember, is that things get filed in the areas that publishers tell them to file them, and that publishers choose the areas that cause the most sales. In this case a feminist work was filed in the LGBT area, meaning that heterosexual feminists would be unable to find it.

See my other response for supergee for further thoughts on this one. My general feeling is that this is going to be a problem in physical bookstores, but online stores should be able to file a book in multiple areas at once.