The iPhone is sexist

[Thimbles]

According to the women described in this article, the iPhone is partly sexist because it requires you to touch the screen with your fingertip, as that's the only way it will work. Unfortunately for women with long fingernails....

http://www.switched.com/2008/06/18/women -with-long-finger-nails-complaining-that -iphone-is-sexist/

[biohasard]

At 6/24/08 10:26 PM, Thimbles wrote: According to the women described in this article, the iPhone is partly sexist because it requires you to touch the screen with your fingertip, as that's the only way it will work. Unfortunately for women with long fingernails....

http://www.switched.com/2008/06/18/women -with-long-finger-nails-complaining-that -iphone-is-sexist/

well why would they have long finger nails if they dont want it because there a tease!

[Maths]

Sexist like you're father,
when he is beating your mother.

[Spartan204]

God damn feminists are so retarded.....

[holy-schat]

hahaha dumb bitches dont realize thats how ALL touch activated screens work.

[36Holla]

A recorded meeting of the IPhone team while it was being developed.

"Ok guys. So we all know that the only reason we started making the IPhone was to stick it to women for not dating a bunch of nerds like us. So what can we do to really screw with them and assert that the man is the dominant of the sexes?"

"How about we have a general start up process and if the person puts in that they are female we have a message pop up that says 'get back in the kitchen bitch.' It's effective and to the point."

"No that's too direct. We need something more subtle."

Damn it, I can't use this beta version of the touch screen."

"Well maybe if you cut your nails every once in a while then you could use it. Seriously those things are as grown out as a woman's nail."

"Wait what did you just say? My god, I think I've got a great idea! Listen to this!"

And the rest is history.

[Dekuboy]

Eh, what a bunch of dumbasses.

[Oxymaniac]

Cut your nails, bitch!

[Cericon]

Those nails aren't attractive.

[Champigne]

I'm sure Steve Jobs had this in mind..

[CrazyRussianSniper]

Im all for equality but feminists r bitches.

[tomato-soup]

At 6/24/08 10:34 PM, 36Holla wrote: A recorded meeting of the IPhone team while it was being developed.

That was the only way it could have went down.

[MsiScars2780]

I prefer my DS.

[Kitala]

its their own damn fault
im a girl and my nails are short
cut them
i had fake nails for prom i found i couldnt do half the shit i could
like text or even do simple things like button something with ease
or zip or hold or pick something up

so that's like saying the whole world is built sexist

which people do say sometimes

w/e

[749-Pi]

I just picture the average ghetto black woman with 7 inch fingernails covered in leopard print or something.

[Sabotage]

That wouldn't be a bad idea, as long as using the stylus was optional. I think touchscreen stuff is pretty awesome because it makes me feel all futuristic and shit, so they shouldn't get rid of it.

[FlamingHiei]

At 6/24/08 11:02 PM, MsiScars2780 wrote: I prefer my DS.

As cool as wifi and internet with a DS is, it doesn't have the range of a phone, and you can't call people on it. I smell an Ngage2.

[snayk]

These women are not feminists; that's not the kind of statement a feminist would make. A feminist would more likely be against women having long nails because it conforms to society's image of what a woman should be.

I think.

[RoobyKillAll]

Push the screen with the pad of your finger, with more of a horizontal motion of the finger, thus avoiding the use of the fingernail all together.

[Lagatag]

I've always found using my nails is more precise for touch screens than my fingertip. Then again, my nails are short, so my fingertip still probably touches the screen as well...

My sister never has had a problem like this with touch screens though...

[Logan033]

howabout they.. idk... clip the nails?

[videogamer0810]

At 6/25/08 12:01 AM, Logan033 wrote: howabout they.. idk... clip the nails?

But... that would require intelligence.

[TheBoyOfAges]

Why not get a DS take the stylist and use it on the iPhone or insted like a non-idiot just cut the nails.

[snayk]

At 6/25/08 12:08 AM, TheBoyOfAges wrote: Why not get a DS take the stylist and use it on the iPhone or insted like a non-idiot just cut the nails.

Or instead (like a non-idiot) spend 3-15 bucks for several stylus pens rather than 130 bucks on a DS only for the stylus.

[TheBoyOfAges]

At 6/25/08 12:11 AM, snayk wrote:

At 6/25/08 12:08 AM, TheBoyOfAges wrote: Why not get a DS take the stylist and use it on the iPhone or insted like a non-idiot just cut the nails.

Or instead (like a non-idiot) spend 3-15 bucks for several stylus pens rather than 130 bucks on a DS only for the stylus.

I'd amuse after reading one of the comments that the DS was in play on this, but it looks like I should have quoted them. So yeah spend 3 bucks on a clicky top stylist to not look completely idiotic.

[pHuXxXB0xX]

the same way that black people would complain that they are casting white people to play a white person? or taht the KFC menu is too expensive for a welfare budget?

plzdontban<3

[groundpwndr]

Couldn't they just use a knuckle or would that make them look like whores?
I am sorry, i meant gorillas.