The iPhone May Be, Quite Literally, The Gayest Phone Ever
This post was published 2 years 7 months 6 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.It’s no secret that since Apple has long been the pick of designers and that Apples computing demographic has leaned more to the Gay side. Building on that Gawker has done some researching and found that the iPhone may, in fact, be the gayest phone ever.
You know what’s yet one more great thing about the gay people? Their consumer consciousness! They’re early adopters, they’re curious consumers—and they buy a HECK of a lot of phones. [...] And here’s another fun anecdotal fact. Nearly half of the iPhone buyers we know are of the gay persuasion.
How do you think that stacks up, in an informal poll I conducted, the anecdotal evidence seems to be true.
UPDATE: Wow, didn’t expect that kind of response. This post was intended to point out a simple fact about iPhone owners. It is no different then pointing that a towns population is 50% Caucasian. I was not designed or intended to demean anybody or anything. Everyone who knows me as well as my coauthors can and will vouch that discrimination is not anything I tolerate.
Does this mean I have to return my iPHone?
This blog has been going downhill a lot recently.
I’ve been subscribed to this site’s RSS for a long time, over a year. Implying that ownership of a particular device by homosexuals is a bad thing; signifies my last read of this blog.
Sean, I think you need to read that post a little more in depth. And the link clearly takes you to another site which makes the claim.
Doesn’t matter. Putting a phrase like ‘Gayest Phone Ever’ into your headline is at the very least, playing off of homophobia to garner eyeballs.
Give Dan a break.
Please read the update.
Who cares what the headline is? If you don’t like what UNEASY reports then GTFO I say.
Or just don’t read the post. I don’t read every article in a newspaper, there are some that I don’t like and I skip over them. I still buy the paper the next day because I still feel it is a good news source.
Knowing Dan for almost 3 years now, I know where he stands on this matter and he’s never discriminated or not befriended someone based on their sexual orientation. The headline can be taken wrong but this piece was not meant in a negative way.
sean, sorry to see you go as an “uneasyreader”
Sean – email us at tips@uneasysilence.com
Dan, I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again. This is YOUR blog, which means YOU can post whatever YOU want.
P.s.: You buy the newspaper?! I refuse to buy one because I can get all the news I want right here.
I’m gay, and I have an iPhone. I find this post to be hilarious and believe it to be true. Word, Dan.
hey, as a longtime reader, I know you guys aren’t homophones (that was supposed to be “phones,” my “gay” phone just corrected it!) By the way, this is my first message on it,it got here direct from china an hour ago (I ordered it last Friday after the Harlem at&t sold out with the guy in front of me).
dammit, PHOBES…this will take practice
Dstaley said it, do what you want it’s your blog. I got an iPhone too and I loved it, but that doesn’t mean I’m gay. It just mean gay people are more into tech and approaches new stuff more that most people. In fact, I think gay people are more easy going than regular folks. They admit they are gay and they live with it fine.
Man, this post is pretty gay. These comments are pretty gay too.
HaHaHa…
Gotta love when people don’t actually understand what they read.
Way to think! There was nothing wrong with this post, I actually found it slightly interesting and funny. What the hell was insulting about that?
If anything..i think someone..and I won’t name names…either
(1) Is homophobic and owns a shiny new iPhone
(2) Is homosexual and WAY too sensitive
(3) Has a “Big Brother” complex and likes to defend other groups as if he’s insulted for them..even if they, as a group, are not insulted.
Al Sharpton is that you out there???
Get a grip
tensenki that was gay… you took the words right out of my mouth
and all i see in this post is that
apple = designer
gays <3 designer stuff…
IM OFFENDED!!!!
*blink blink* its a phone…not a person… did we miss that down the line people?
I think you guys really overreacted. Uneasy Silence has been doing a great job of supplying us with iPhone news. And this was, well…. iPhone news.
“Sean: This blog has been going downhill a lot recently…blah..blah..blah”
OMFG, Mac zealot alert! Good thing I only have a Nokia 6630. Symbian Smartphones might not be as sleek as iPhone, but one thing they are not is “GAY”.
and the place I come from is no San Francisco..so yeah, Gay bashing is still on around here. Not that I’m particularly fond of such activity though.
haha, this is the lamest correlation to the phone i have, but i’ll go for it anyway: does it mean that i have a gambling problem because i have a cingluar blackjack? bwahahaha. i love this site. dan/derek/the rest keep it up! btw, i’d of bought the iphone instead of the blackjack, but i need 3G/hspda for my on-the-go midget donkey pr0n fetish.
“The iPhone May Be, Quite Literally, The Honkiest Phone Ever”
Signed,
Spic
Count me in as another queer guy who thinks this post was funny and probably pretty accurate!
Love the site, Dan! =)
@SEAN
G’day sir…
PS don’t read Gawker you might cry :(
@SEAN
PWNT
*is gay*
*is an iPhone owner*
I don’t know how off target the post is to be honest…
@Sean
Last I checked, calling something gay was not derogatory unless one thought that being gay was itself wrong. Being insulted that the iPhone is being correlated to a highly homosexual early-adopter crowd is actually homophobic on your part. I’m from a semi-rural part of Texas, so I’m quite accustomed to things being called gay as negative, but I did not expect someone to so quickly take such offense to simple implication of homosexual ownership of a phone (not a negative angle but a neutral one) here.
@The Uneasy staff
I found the post to be informative and interesting as the rest of the Uneasy blog. Keep it up, guys.
I just wanted to ’second’ what Alan Rager said. I couldn’t have been more articulate if I tried and, frankly, everything other than my being from semi-rural Texas was spot on.
Hmm. I know I read UneasySilence for the useless and stupid information it provides, but this takes the cake. Matter of fact, you could say that reading Uneasy Silence is gay.
Hmm. I’m interested in getting an iPhone… but I’m bi. So does that work out?
I’m gay and dont want the damn phone!
Just a note… I’m sick of the term “homophobe” I am in no way afraid of fags. I really hate their lifestyle and the fact that every queer couple with kids has pictures in their homes of themselves and their childeren nude (always B&W so they can say its art) doesn’t help any. I am a realtor, thats why I’m in the home (since thats your next question).