and on CNET

[rm]

As per usual fandom looks weird and LJ just looks really stupid.

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9755616-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Fandom needs talking points. Fandom needs to stick to the talking points (hahahaha, I know!) and someone who is not me who has a background in PR needs to start herding the cats.

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[zarq.livejournal.com]

I have to admit though, this quote made me roll my eyes:

""'Obscenity' is the perfect tool to weed out everything that doesn't fit in a nice, clean, straight, male-dominated and preferably white world," charged a user named erestor."

I'm sure that's what motivated the feminist movement to fight pornography as obscenity and degrading to women over the years.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Sure, but many of us do think (I wish it had been expressed better there) that this is about sexism and homophobia. If the people deciding what has artistic value were turned on by the images, that is if the Snape/Harry pic had been Snape/Hermione a lot of us are pretty sure if wouldn't have been banned. It's a guess, but one a lot of people are habouring. Similarly, since fandom is mostly female, a lot of people feel like this is an attack on female sexuality that isn't about pleasing men. Do I think this is consciously the case? No. Do I think it's subconsciously the case? Hell yeah.

[zarq.livejournal.com]

It's a guess, but one a lot of people are habouring.

Perhaps. Chalk me up in the "unconvinced" column. I'm not saying you're wrong, per se, just that I haven't seen any compelling evidence one way or another. One or two instances doesn't make a trend, and since, as you say, slash fandom is overwhelmingly made up of women, that hypothesis is going to be awfully hard to prove one way or another.

I read about an instance (documented somewhere on my flist) where someone's hentai tentacle rape drawings of a woman had gotten an artist banned a number of months ago. So, if LJ didn't already police the naked images communities for TOS / underage violations, I'd probably be more inclined to see a conspiracy here.

I think it's more likely that LJ has moved against the HP fandom communities because they have been receiving DMCA orders from the publisher's lawyers and are afraid of being sued, rather than out of an sort of prurient interest. The last strikethrough debacle makes it seem as if 6A acts only when prompted.