“Apple thinks ‘vagina’ is an inappropriate word,” Radhika Sanghani reports for The Telegraph. “So much so that the global company will not let its users have the biological term engraved onto an iPad bought from its site. Any attempt to do so comes up with a message saying: ‘Inappropriate message text.'”
“That same error message pops up if you ask for ‘clit’ or ‘boobs’ to be engraved on your product,” Sanghani reports. “But, where female genitalia is deemed inappropriate, male genitalia is not. ‘Penis’ does not bring up any error message at all. I know this because I just tried it.”
“Bizarrely, it doesn’t allow ‘boobs’ but will let you have ‘penis’, ‘willy’ and even ‘dick’ engraved on to your tablet,” Sanghani reports. “It also allows ‘breasts’ – but we could easily be talking chicken… Dr Christine Welch, of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Winchester, says: ‘It sounds to me quite gendered. It’s effectively saying it’s OK to use some words that are about the male body and not the female body. What if you wanted to give it to someone as a present saying, ‘Well done for the Vagina Monologues?””
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MacDailyNews Take:
“Hope you love this iPad mini as much as you love your pussy… er, kitty cat.”
