15-year-old Girl Asks Apple to Remove MacBook's Offensive Dictionary Definition of ‘Gay’
A Massachusetts teenager courageously took on giant conglomerate Apple in advocating for gay rights, after discovering an offensive definition of the term ‘gay’ on her Apple MacBook, Fox Bostonreported.
Fifteen-year-old, Becca Gorman, was writing a history essay on gay rights when she typed the word, “gay” into her MacBook dictionary only to find two very derogatory informal definitions of the term: “foolish” and “stupid”, as well as the following offensive example - “making students wait for the light is kind of a gay rule”.
The teenager, who has lesbian parents, said that despite being accustomed to hearing the term ‘that’s so gay’ used in everyday conversation, she was highly offended that a global company like Apple which claims to be enlightened and has an openly gay CEO would legitimize such insulting definitions:
“At first, I was kind of in disbelief…I felt like they had to take care of it," she said,
After consulting with her mothers, Gorman decided to take action and wrote to Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, to express her utter disgust.
Within an hour, to her surprise, an Apple representative called her back and also expressed dismay.
"They said that Apple streams its dictionary from four separate sources so they'd have to figure out how to get it removed, but they were also really surprised," the teen said to WCB-TV.
But while Gordan says the representative said Apple would look into the problem, to date, the MacBook definition remained unchanged.
Still, Gordan is not about to give up:
“I feel like we’re going to have to make a bigger deal about it before they actually act on it,” she said in the interview.
