"AMAZING. SO HAPPY" to rape E.L. James? With EBAY's HELP?

As pudgy E.L. James would tell you, there are various ways to abuse and dominate women, even in this "Me Too" era. Tiger Woods is a master at it. He engages in "rough sex," and when he goes too far, the woman simply takes her Band-Aids and her aspirin and walks away. Consensual.

RAPE by definition is NOT consensual.

RAPE by definition is taking something from somebody else. It's not just physical. It takes away trust, faith, and even hope. It's a betrayal. It's done with malice and selfishness.

The word has been used in many contexts, and it can be used in this one: the bootlegging of E.L. James' books, and the works of Ruth Ware and several other women. When you take from a woman, what else do you want to call it? Does it have to be violent? Rapists have acted while the victim was drugged. It's happened without the victim even being sure it's happened.

Does pudgy E.L. James know she's being used on eBAY? Does Ruth Ware? Pudgy E.L. James might be the kind of woman who really doesn't care one way or the other. That doesn't mean the guy should get away with it, or do it to other women who might just have a little more intelligence and morality.

Here's some POSITIVE FEEDBACK on an eBay seller who eBay claims to have "warned," over and over for what, a year now? TWO? "Oh, we give a warning. Then we give another warning. I see this account has had a lot of warnings. Not to worry. We will send out another warning."

EBAY protects the identities of the bidders, so we don't know who is "SO HAPPY" with getting a bootleg of one of pudgy E.L. James' moronic badly written "books." The point isn't whether you rape a bag lady or a princess. It's wrong. Does eBay understand this?

YES AND NO. Ebay has said, "Yes, we have a rule against selling digital downloads. But we have MILLIONS of auctions. We don't always have the time to remove auctions reported to us." Stealing and copying an author's book is a low priority to them. What the hell, pudgy E.L. James is worth millions. A nickel and dime Canadian creep pulling in three bucks (after Paypal and eBay take THEIR percentage) is no big deal. Don't say it's "the principle" of thing. It's not like writing is so difficult.

Here's the ad:

No, it's hard to feel sympathetic toward a moron like pudgy E.L. James, or her trailer-trash fiction that suggests women really do want to be abused and assaulted because it's so ROMANTIC. It's hard to feel sorry for a bottom feeder who is even worse than the usual "bodice ripper" garbage that some women read with such delight (even if they wouldn't want to be "ravished" in reality).

But how about her sister authors? ME TOO to RUTH WARE and RACHEL ANDERSON and...

ALL these women should be saying, "NO...you don't TAKE FROM ME. You don't USE ME. You don't MAKE ME YOUR WHORE when you PIMP MY BOOKS AND TAKE ALL THE MONEY."

IT's the PRINCIPLE of the thing. And yet, EBAY has continued to ignore this seller's multiple violations, like some addled judge who decides there's no reason to charge a rapist time after time after time...and then when a case does come to trial, says "probation."

This seller has been caught and STILL not been given a restriction, warning or suspension that has made him STOP.

The seller here is a cheap, penny-ante pimp-minded sociopath. WHAT IS EBAY's EXCUSE? What is PAYPAL's excuse? And where are the publishers and their Web Sheriffs and Digimarc Guards to see to it that their artists are protected? Pudgy E.L. James is living in a bubble (appropriate for someone that looks like one). Any email to her website goes unanswered and anyone using social media to point out these abuses is blocked. There's always the woman who doesn't press charges against her rapist, and waits for her sisters to do it for her, with a ME TOO and a ME TOO and a ME TOO.

Perhaps RUTH WARE and RACHEL ANDERSON and the others will be the ME TOO chorus that doesn't include dumb pudgy E.L. James.