Apple rejects gay humour app

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by mcantelon • 13 years ago

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bluthru• 13 years ago

>Anything and everything can be offensive — it’s purely subjective.

Right, and Apple is exercising their right to find the app offensive. Why is this a story?

jiggy20115• 13 years ago

That's really the problem with walled garden systems. One group of people decides for everyone what is/isn't offensive.

fredoliveira• 13 years ago

In reality, they're deciding for themselves - which is fair. It just happens to affect you because you use the outcome of that decision.

PavlovsCat• 13 years ago

Maybe someone is exercising their right to find Apple finding the app offensive offsensive.

intopieces3• 13 years ago

Gay guy weighing in here: Apple is not homophobic in keeping this nonsense app from their store. By throwing the accusation around, we risk devaluing it. Apple, Inc scored 100% on the Human Rights Council's Corporate Equality Index. Calling them homophobic is like calling Edward R. Murrow a communist -- it shows your desperation immediately.

jiggy20115• 13 years ago

The "Human Rights Council's Corporate Equality Index" is something that seems to mostly relate to employment practises.

I doubt it has provisions that cover app stores.

intopieces3• 13 years ago

You are correct, it does not cover app stores. It does, however, display a certain corporate culture that is indicative of how such mechanisms within the company are likely to operate. My hypothesis regarding this rejection is that the reviewers found the app itself to be homophobic because it relies on tired stereotypes about gay men and is, in fact, not funny at all.

speeder• 13 years ago

This is a major no-win for Apple.

Take out app made by a gay guy? Homophobic.

Not take out the "flaming" app, thus offending lots of homosexual men (that are men first, homosexual second)? Homophobic.

I hate those sort of situations, specially when it result in some people always losing.

Here in Brazil we have a conservative politician (he would fit right into Tea Party if he was at US), that once went to protest against a "gay kit" that the ministry of education wanted to give to schools... Several gay people were against the kit, because if was badly made, it was of bad taste, and attracted flak from society, beside being a waste of taxpayer money.

Returning to our politician, he stood behind a TV interview of another politician, holding his anti-gaykit (not anti-gay mind you) pamphlets. A pro-gay poltician started to shout that he was homophobic, attacked him physically, and then the assaulted guy got sued later... (at least the lawsuit was thrown out). Later some gays supported the guy, not that they agree with him, but they think that the female pro-gay politician that attacked him was against free speech. Of course, those got called "homophobic" too (even being gays).

I can conclude that some words, are more about insulting your opposition that disagree with you, than real labels.

This apply to homophobic, MRA, racist (not that real racists don't exist... mind you), misogynistic, and so on...

rmc• 13 years ago

To be fair though, there is a lot of homophobic laws in the world.

animal• 13 years ago

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bksenior• 13 years ago

Well, when you police for taste, you eventually get burned by the subjectivity of the whole matter. This is the quintessential "you made your bed now sleep in it" example

general_failure• 13 years ago

Why do people act surprised again and again? It's Apple's playground, you play by their rules. Rules can change over time. It's been this way since app store launched. Just live with it. Or develop for android or something.

Apple rejects gay humour app

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