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[JihadJane]

Naomi Wolf's Vagina covered up by Apple iTunes

The ebook of the feminist author's blockbuster study of how society has avoided thinking and talking about women's genitals is asterisked out.

 

[baron]

Either that or a marketing ploy to boost sales out of single figures. Or a nod towards Who's Afraid of Wolf's Vagina?

 

[Lisa Simpson]

I wonder if they get the irony of their decision.

iTunes is very sensitive. They used to ban the word "suck" as well, even when it was used in a non-sexual context.

 

[Professor Yaffle]

Stupid that they censor it, but Naomi Wolf doesn't half talk a load of crap...

 

[Travis]

I wonder if they get the irony of their decision.

iTunes is very sensitive. They used to ban the word "suck" as well, even when it was used in a non-sexual context.

 

[C_Felix]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs3OWJ53rHE

Lebowski.

 

[Jekyll's Guest]

I for one consider it a mercy that they covered up Naomi Wolf's Vagina.

 

[ponderingturtle]

Censoring a book an censorship? That's so meta...

 

[joesixpack]

Either that or a marketing ploy to boost sales out of single figures.

This alone will be better than a million sycophantic feminist reviews. Now she can pretend she's relevant.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Itunes is as inconsistent as it is stupid about censorship. They asterisk out the word "whore" in the title of the song "International Whore"....but not in the name of the group, which is Whore's Mascara.

 

[Sledge]

I wonder if they get the irony of their decision.

iTunes is very sensitive. They used to ban the word "suck" as well, even when it was used in a non-sexual context.

I wonder if they get the irony of their decision.

iTunes is very sensitive. They used to ban the word "suck" as well, even when it was used in a non-sexual context.

 

[TragicMonkey]

By the way, iTunes is very sensitive. They used to ban the word "suck"....

 

[Beerina]

Does iTunes do news articles?

"***** Riot Censored in Russia" would be precious.

 

[carlitos]

I wonder if they get the irony of their decision.

iTunes is very sensitive. They used to ban the word "suck" as well, even when it was used in a non-sexual context.

 

[Lisa Simpson]

The forum hiccuped and posted my comment twice. I deleted the duplicate, and Travis' comment is an attempt at humor.

 

[Professor Yaffle]

There was a forum hiccup when lisa posted and her post appeared twice; once before mine and once after. She seems to have deleted the second post now.

/spoilsport joke explainer

 

[theprestige]

We're talking about Viagra, right?

 

[Manopolus]

I suspect that'd be Wal-Mart's electronics and book vendors at work. They're the leaders of modern censorship anyway, and they have such a huge share of the market that they have this type of power, even over other fairly powerful companies.

The question is, if we don't call it a "vagina" than what the heck do we call it? Seriously, should we be banned from even referring to that part of the anatomy entirely? That would tend to confuse the medical profession, at the very least.

 

[Last of the Fraggles]

society has avoided thinking and talking about women's genitals

Seriously? Sometimes an afternoon could be passed down the pub doing very little else.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I suspect that'd be Wal-Mart's electronics and book vendors at work. They're the leaders of modern censorship anyway, and they have such a huge share of the market that they have this type of power, even over other fairly powerful companies.

The question is, if we don't call it a "vagina" than what the heck do we call it? Seriously, should we be banned from even referring to that part of the anatomy entirely? That would tend to confuse the medical profession, at the very least.

The medical industry uses the scientific terminology, which is "Nancy Drew and the Secret Cavern".