Clean Reader App

[Trike]

NPR has a story on the Clean Reader app brought up in the Quick Burns thread. Turns out it does replace words deemed offensive with alternate words... but some of them are not exactly synonyms. The funniest one is turning "vagina" into "bottom." That changes EVERYTHING.

Would that mean people in the Vaginal Fantasy group would be in the Bottomal Fantasy group?

Anyway, check it out: Clean Reader App Draws Ire From Edited Writers

[Tassie Dave, S&L Historian]

Trike wrote: "The funniest one is turning "vagina" into "bottom." That changes EVERYTHING."

That's funny. The definition of "fanny" changes from the first (For us Aussies and the English) to the second for you Americans also ;-)

It would have been funnier if it changed "vagina" to "front bottom". Another slang term for it.

[Jennifer]

I am discussing this in another group. You might enjoy this.


http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2015/...

[Taryn]

Last I checked, a vagina was a body part and not an "unclean" word.

Aaaaand now I'm pictured censored health classes, where teachers have to get creative about teaching kids about penises and vaginas without saying the words. Thanks, Clean Reader! Lol.

[Sky]

Hrm..."I want your groin in my bottom"...Seems to turn standard missionary into anal.

[Ruth (tilltab) Ashworth]

Taryn wrote: "Aaaaand now I'm pictured censored health classes, where teachers have to get creative about teaching kids about penises and vaginas without saying the words. Thanks, Clean Reader! Lol.
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Lol, reminds me of when I did my year abroad in Japan, and during the introductory week, we were given a very odd sex ed talk (in case we'd managed to get to our 20's not knowing about STD's and stuff). Now, to be fair, there were a few bits of useful information buried among so much obvious (what kind of contraceptives are available in Japan, what kind of help you can get there if you fall pregnant etc.) but the hilarious bit was the way the very uncomfortable looking Japanese lady would use the word 'thing' (usually said with a great deal of emphasis) in place of just about any word she didn't like to say.

Mind you 'thing' is a far better replacement for vagina than bottom, even allowing for the fanny confusion. Why the word needs to be changed at all, I cannot imagine. And why breast to chest? It's so silly.

Well, anyway, I'm off to buy a goddamn motherfucking lamp (it'll look so nice next to my Gosh-darn Monday-through-Friday lamp)