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Susan Estrich: 'Lack of Diversity' at Apple Caused 'iPad' Name
NewsBusters ^ | February 3, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 02/03/2010 4:34:59 AM PST by PJ-Comix

There are some stories that make you cover your eyes with your hand and groan. And this column by Susan Estrich about what she thinks is the poorly named Apple iPad is definitely one of those. Here is Estrich putting on her feminist cap and making a very long stretch on blaming the name "iPad" on a "lack of diversity" at Apple:

Is there a woman in America who did not laugh, or at least roll her eyes, the minute she heard that the newest, hottest tablet computer from one of America's most ingenuous companies was going to sound like a feminine hygiene product? The iKotex is what most people I know are calling it, with apologies to Kotex.

So where were those women? The short answer is that, plainly, they were not in the room. Go to Apple's home page and look at the pictures and bios of key executives. I'll tell you who you'll find: Steve, Timothy, Scott, Jonathan, Ron, Bob, Peter, Mark, Philip, Bertrand and Bruce. All white, all men. If there is a "top" woman at Apple, at best she's No. 12.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: apple; diversity; ilovebillgates; ipad; iwanthim; iwanthimbad; language; microsoftfanboys; susanestrich
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To: PJ-Comix; All

One more reason why liberals are dangerous and must be eradicated.

Good God Folks....these people should be locked up in mental institutions.

Susan its obvious that you still need to be in therapy and a 12 step program.

Truth will evade you until you decide to come out of your denial.


41 posted on 02/03/2010 5:00:29 AM PST by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: doodad
Only Susan Estrogen thinks this way. Hers has wings.

And an empennage.

42 posted on 02/03/2010 5:00:35 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks Right-Wing.)
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To: PJ-Comix

—nope—


43 posted on 02/03/2010 5:01:04 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: PJ-Comix

Kotex is what you think of when you hear the name, but one thing’s for certain, you don’t forget it!

Even if it’s not the best sounding name, you know what it is.


44 posted on 02/03/2010 5:01:15 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: PJ-Comix
MadTV's iPad from 2007. There's a reason for this linkage...
45 posted on 02/03/2010 5:01:20 AM PST by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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To: PJ-Comix

Good grief!

Though I do think of Tampax when Prince Charles is mentioned.


46 posted on 02/03/2010 5:02:12 AM PST by maggief
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To: PJ-Comix

Funny about this... When my kid got an Ipod, she was.... different, not all there.. distracted. I thought of the pods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.


47 posted on 02/03/2010 5:02:28 AM PST by ArtDodger (Reread Animal Farm (with your kids))
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To: PJ-Comix
All white, all men.

And yet they are running a $50B sales company and turning a decent profit, innovating new products, even creating new markets that didn't exist before... maybe we need MORE white men !?!?

48 posted on 02/03/2010 5:04:54 AM PST by ikka
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To: PJ-Comix
Groan alert! Did anybody here think of "iKotex" when the "iPad" was revealed?

When I was trying to read the initial reports on FR, there were a bunch of posts joking about the name and a bunch of graphics made. This was a half hour after the product was introduced. There were also quite a few graphics that had Kotex products with Apple logos.

I hadn't made the connection, either, but the frequency of posts and the professionalism of some of the graphics, and the fact they appeared almost immediately made me suspicious that maybe there was an organized campaign that had been focus grouped to go after the device.

49 posted on 02/03/2010 5:05:29 AM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: youturn
You can thank Mad TV for dooming the future of iPad.

The iPad
50 posted on 02/03/2010 5:07:13 AM PST by baltoga
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To: PJ-Comix
MadTV was all over this in 2006.

Mad Tv - IPad

51 posted on 02/03/2010 5:07:46 AM PST by Cooter
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To: Richard Kimball

Interesting.
You may be on to something there.


52 posted on 02/03/2010 5:08:21 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan
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To: doc11355

Point take and the original story has been updated with an accurate iPad photo.


53 posted on 02/03/2010 5:08:26 AM PST by PJ-Comix (I love ROCK 'N ROLL! I memorized the all WORDS to "WIPE-OUT'' in 1965!!)
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To: PJ-Comix
Behold iGore...


54 posted on 02/03/2010 5:09:10 AM PST by Fresh Wind ("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
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To: PJ-Comix

Absolutely. And, I heard two jokes about that in the courthouse on day one. Estrich is a libtard, but she’s right about this one.


55 posted on 02/03/2010 5:09:41 AM PST by anton
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To: All

Headline- Computer Company Creates Revolutionary Product With Questionable Name.. women hardest hit.


56 posted on 02/03/2010 5:10:04 AM PST by newnhdad (The longest of journeys begins with one step.)
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To: PJ-Comix
A dozen Men running a successful company???

How did this happen???

To Susan, might we call your article a “rag” ???

57 posted on 02/03/2010 5:11:36 AM PST by PA-RIVER
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To: maggief
When Prince Charles is mentioned I think of this - every time!


58 posted on 02/03/2010 5:12:02 AM PST by raybbr
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To: PJ-Comix

So a note pad, a pad to build a structure, a pad at the beach, a padded cell are all related to her PMS? what an idiot.


59 posted on 02/03/2010 5:13:21 AM PST by mefistofelerevised
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To: PJ-Comix
Groan alert! Did anybody here think of "iKotex" when the "iPad" was revealed?

No. Kotex to me always brings to mind tampons. iPad simply brought to mind another over priced Apple product.

60 posted on 02/03/2010 5:13:47 AM PST by raybbr
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