Apple pulls PeekABoo->-bleeped-<- app

[Butterfly]

Apple pulls PeekABoo->-bleeped-<- app
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Bil Browning
October 29, 2010 4:00 PM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/10/apple_pulls_peekaboo->-bleeped-<-_app.php


Thanks to GLAAD and everyone who called Apple's public relations number yesterday, the technology behemoth has yanked PeekABoo->-bleeped-<- from its online store. It is no longer available thanks to the big stink the LGBT community made about the app.

[lilacwoman]

on telly one evening last week there were two adverts in one break with 'trannies' in them. 
Those business people know that trannies make good adverts.

[spacial]

If you think about it lilac, advertisers only use features that they know will attract an auduence. Their job is to sell a product. They don't make anything by offending people or challanging them.

If advertisers are using, 'trannies', then the advertisers know that is going to sell the product.

That indicates that people want to see transgender people.

This indicates that people are interested in transgender.

This indicates that people are not turned off or negative by transgender.

[Muffin]

1) what is an app
2) what does this app do
3) app?
4) 'tf?
%) ...

[rejennyrated]

Whilst I think the app (and the kind of person who would buy it) was rather sad - I also personally think the hoo-ha about it was also rather pathetic making us look like a bunch of precious prima-donas.

Just a personal opinion - but on the whole I genuinely think these sort of sillinesses are best treated with the silent contempt that they deserve rather than dignified and inadvertently publicised by the oxygen of protest.

Perhaps it is different in the UK.

[Fencesitter]

@Muffin
Apps are applications for various gimmicks such as the iPhone etc. Little programs which may be somewhat useful or entertaining, like a little clock which helps you cook your 3 ot 5-minute-eggs to the point, a virtual water level which helps you make better photos with the gimmick, or small silly games.

@rejennyrated
I see what you mean. Then again, if there were apps such as Peek-a-->-bleeped-<-, Peek-a-->-bleeped-<- etc., I'd wholly understand if people get angry, especially if Apple is known for their usually strict policies.

[Lukas-H]

What did the app do exactly? The name of it doesn't really give me any clues about it's purpose.

Depending on what it did, I don't see anything wrong with people being hurt and offended by such a thing. It's natural in life to make jokes out of, well, everything, but some stuff goes too far. Sometimes, if you let people continue to make jokes out of what you are or what you are a part of, it's going to be even harder for people to take you seriously and realize you're all in the same boat together; just people trying to make their way on this planet.

But that's just a general opinion since I really don't know what it does.

[transheretic]

For crying out loud..........this language policing just makes you all look like humourless curmudgeons.  Like it or not, the non LGBt world took ->-bleeped-<- while you weren't using it and not looking and redefined it as "drag queen" and like it or not, most of the world actually finds drag queens fun and amusing and laughs with them not at them.  So go ahead an pitch a fit about being connected to drag queens, unless you are outrageous, that connection isn't made by the real world until you make it so.

Ticked off Trannies was a drag queen movie, not a transgender or transsexual one.  This app is a clear drag queen "fun" app and has zero to do with transgender or transsexual.  None of you pitched a bitch retroactively about Rocky Horror similar movies and they were also always drag queen movies.

Get a life, get a sense of humour.  I laughed my ass off looking at the website for the app and if I wasn't such a stay at home and thus don't have a cell phone let alone an iphone, I'd get this app if I had one for the laugh value.  If you get over yourselves and look at it with unbiased eyes it is all about fun, not transphobia.

[rejennyrated]

For crying out loud..........this language policing just makes you all look like humourless curmudgeons.  Like it or not, the non LGBt world took ->-bleeped-<- while you weren't using it and not looking and redefined it as "drag queen" and like it or not, most of the world actually finds drag queens fun and amusing and laughs with them not at them.  So go ahead an pitch a fit about being connected to drag queens, unless you are outrageous, that connection isn't made by the real world until you make it so.

Ticked off Trannies was a drag queen movie, not a transgender or transsexual one.  This app is a clear drag queen "fun" app and has zero to do with transgender or transsexual.  None of you pitched a bitch retroactively about Rocky Horror similar movies and they were also always drag queen movies.

Get a life, get a sense of humour.  I laughed my ass off looking at the website for the app and if I wasn't such a stay at home and thus don't have a cell phone let alone an iphone, I'd get this app if I had one for the laugh value.  If you get over yourselves and look at it with unbiased eyes it is all about fun, not transphobia.

Not sure I would have gone as far as buying it - it seemed rather tacky - but yeah on the whole I agree. Glad I'm not alone in thinking that the outcry was rather OTT and counter productive.

[Alexmakenoise]

What did the app do exactly? The name of it doesn't really give me any clues about it's purpose.

It inserts a picture of a "->-bleeped-<-" into the pictures you take with your iPhone.

http://www.queerty.com/apple-originally-thought-peekaboo-->-bleeped-<--app-would-be-a-great-app-store-addition-20101029/

[transheretic]

Perhaps because I've had actual drag queen friends and appreciated their humour I see this different.  And the app inserts pics of drag queens who provided the pics themselves into a photo being outrageous. 

I'm not going to out her, but a long time member of the Apple management team is a woman of history and there isn't a snowballs chance she didn't give an OK on this app before it was offered.  Food for thought perhaps?

Back in the day, before I became the evilest trans person and new transitioners still came to me for advice, the first piece of advice I'd give is "develop a sense of humour because a lot of what you are about to go through is actually funny, not tragic."

[Muffin]

ok now I know what it is I'm not finding myself laughing and I love to laugh.. don't get me wrong laughing is something I try my best to do 24/7 and it's a part of my personally people know me for (I know right :S) but really ....this......imo..............ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz.
And yeah leaning more towards offensive than funny. again imo. :^_______________^