Comments on: Bad Ideas

By: Loosely Twisted

Loosely Twisted — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:07:28 +0000

Yeah it’s better not to say anything and appologize if you fuck up then it is to ask for permission.. Far be it for him to think of the Others. Isn’t that male privilege at it’s finest?

Then turn around and deny that it was meant the way you took it, making it your fault. :(

Removed his link, I shall not support a faux feminist man. Though I kinda had a feeling months and months back when he supported all the stupid male trolls on his site and banned Ginmar. But this definately screams faux news to me. Pun intended.

By: Daran

Daran — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:17:06 +0000

As near as I can tell, there’s only the single link from http://www.amptoons.com/ (not even the /blog/ page) that goes to the review site. So don’t worry about improving the Google pagerank by visiting, just linking.

Actually there is a link to the reviews site on every page in the blog. Only the non-blog (mostly cartoon stuff) isn’t linked.

But you’re right that merely visiting the site doesn’t affect the pagerank.

By: hk

hk — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:49:42 +0000

I read about this last month when he first announced it. Honestly it doesn’t bother me all that much. I wish he could have found a different way to support his site, but it is his site sell and I’ll keep reading it.

By: Alas, an Eruption « Creative Destruction

Alas, an Eruption « Creative Destruction — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:39:09 +0000

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By: nyarly

nyarly — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:28:47 +0000

...he expands on his regrets in comments and asks for useful action he can take to help mitigate the damage he’s done.

Oh, well, maybe he can "meet with feminist leaders to 'discern the appropriate path for healing.'" I mean, really, that's all you have to do after you fuck up really bad, right? Say you're sorry and imply that if you could do anything to fix it, you would. (How convenient that you... can't.) It worked for Mel Gibson, after all.

By: ScottM

ScottM — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:17:51 +0000

While you may not be fond of Barry for this or other reasons, he serves an awfully useful function. His site is a great introduction to feminism. Until I stumbled on his site via his political cartoons, I had probably had less than 30 minutes of focused thought on feminism in my whole life.

Far more, through him, I found many other feminst sites– sites there’s no way I’d have investigated without the handholding posts on his site when I began my exploration.

Since many commenters have said they’re not going to visit his site, I will report that he expands on his regrets in comments and asks for useful action he can take to help mitigate the damage he’s done.

By: KnifeGhost

KnifeGhost — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:36:11 +0000

This is disappointing, but it also illustrates a lesson that many feminist women have to learn: a lot of “pro-feminist” men talk the talk, but don’t walk the walk.

Very true, and very frustrating.

But it’s not like there haven’t been other indications that Amp doesn’t. Fucking. Get it.

He’s ruined his credibility, and he’ll have to live with it.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:26:59 +0000

Amp posted a response to me at my blog. Thought others might be interested in his response.

By: Txfeminist

Txfeminist — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:05:32 +0000

Ironically, I notice that it was a man whom Amp quoted, and who apparently influenced Amp to re-open the debate.

Yesterday there were at least a dozen posts on women’s blogs about it. But he doens’t respond til the other man tells him to. That about says it all right there.

Innerestin’ all right. And I’m very dissapointed.

By: Byron

Byron — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:05:18 +0000

zuzu and others: Visiting amptoons.com does not increase the pagerank at all. Google doesn’t care about hit counts, it only cares about links. Linking to amptoons.com will increase its page rank slightly, and so it will have more pagerank to give to review.amptoons.com (the site that does the linking to the porn sites) in turn.

As near as I can tell, there’s only the single link from http://www.amptoons.com/ (not even the /blog/ page) that goes to the review site. So don’t worry about improving the Google pagerank by visiting, just linking.