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Why Apple’s Frightened of Female Sexuality

31 points by lkrubner 12y ago

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a2tech 12y ago
Are there app's available teaching men to masturbate? If there are, then she has a complaint. If there aren't, she doesn't have much ground to stand on.
- x0x0 12y ago
  As mentioned in the article, rack stare [1] is in the app store. So masturbation bad, sexual harassment good? [1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rack-stare/id385786751?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rack-stare/id385786751?mt=8
  - phillmv 12y ago
    Let's get on a more basic level, even. Which of the two apps is more pornographic? The cutesy anthropomorphized vagina giving anatomical lessons, or the game that rewards you for staring at cleavage?
    - bjz_ 12y ago
      Please read the entirety of the article, including page two (which is unfortunately easy to miss). There she writes: > I’ll acknowledge that, although disgusting and possibly dangerous, Rack Stare caters to a certain market. The real problem is there aren’t many alternatives to this construction of sexuality
- dantillberg 12y ago
  We don't have to ensure that men have parity before granting women the same privileges. I'd suggest that educational resources are much more needed and demanded for women than men in this market. Also, as discussed in the article, Rack Stare seems to me far more objectionable (and I doubt it's alone in the App Store). If Apple's going to endorse sexual harassment of women, it might as well cut them some slack in learning about their own bodies.
- tbrake 12y ago
  I didn't get that at all from the article; how did you arrive at the conclusion that discontent could only be valid if there were apps for both sexes on the market? It seemed to me like there was a whole lot of article giving ample ground to stand on.
- bjz_ 12y ago
  The author is claiming that girls and women aren't getting access to adequate information about their bodies. If that is true then the fact(?) that there isn't an app about male masturbation is irrelevant.
Infinitesimus 12y ago
Article doesn't properly address the headline. Apple's rejection could be the same for a game about male masturbation.
mwfunk 12y ago
I came very close to missing the fact that there was a page 2 here, but to anyone that wants to read the whole thing: there's a page 2. I strongly agree with much of what the author is saying here, but she may be reading too much into the fate of this particular pair of apps ("never attribute to malice...", etc.). I mean this as a nit and not the dreaded "middlebrow dismissal". :) The saving grace of the piece is that her thesis is more about attitudes towards sexuality in general; this particular incident only provides a convenient example.
neves 12y ago
Hey Apple, approve the App!!! If I had a teen daughter, I would buy it for her. Everybody else: read till the second page.

31 points by lkrubner 12y ago

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Are there app's available teaching men to masturbate? If there are, then she has a complaint. If there aren't, she doesn't have much ground to stand on.

x0x0 12y ago
As mentioned in the article, rack stare [1] is in the app store. So masturbation bad, sexual harassment good? [1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rack-stare/id385786751?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rack-stare/id385786751?mt=8
- phillmv 12y ago
  Let's get on a more basic level, even. Which of the two apps is more pornographic? The cutesy anthropomorphized vagina giving anatomical lessons, or the game that rewards you for staring at cleavage?
  - bjz_ 12y ago
    Please read the entirety of the article, including page two (which is unfortunately easy to miss). There she writes: > I’ll acknowledge that, although disgusting and possibly dangerous, Rack Stare caters to a certain market. The real problem is there aren’t many alternatives to this construction of sexuality
dantillberg 12y ago
We don't have to ensure that men have parity before granting women the same privileges. I'd suggest that educational resources are much more needed and demanded for women than men in this market. Also, as discussed in the article, Rack Stare seems to me far more objectionable (and I doubt it's alone in the App Store). If Apple's going to endorse sexual harassment of women, it might as well cut them some slack in learning about their own bodies.
tbrake 12y ago
I didn't get that at all from the article; how did you arrive at the conclusion that discontent could only be valid if there were apps for both sexes on the market? It seemed to me like there was a whole lot of article giving ample ground to stand on.
bjz_ 12y ago
The author is claiming that girls and women aren't getting access to adequate information about their bodies. If that is true then the fact(?) that there isn't an app about male masturbation is irrelevant.

Infinitesimus 12y ago

Article doesn't properly address the headline. Apple's rejection could be the same for a game about male masturbation.

mwfunk 12y ago

I came very close to missing the fact that there was a page 2 here, but to anyone that wants to read the whole thing: there's a page 2. I strongly agree with much of what the author is saying here, but she may be reading too much into the fate of this particular pair of apps ("never attribute to malice...", etc.). I mean this as a nit and not the dreaded "middlebrow dismissal". :) The saving grace of the piece is that her thesis is more about attitudes towards sexuality in general; this particular incident only provides a convenient example.

neves 12y ago

Hey Apple, approve the App!!! If I had a teen daughter, I would buy it for her. Everybody else: read till the second page.