Apple’s dictionary has an offensive informal definition of gay as ‘foolish, stupid’.
A student at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Becca Gorman, found out while working on a gay rights essay that the definition of the word ‘gay’ in Apple’s dictionary included its informal definition as foolish or stupid, ABC News reports.
Gorman, whose parents are lesbians, wrote an email to Apple CEO Tim Cook, saying that she objected to the inclusion of such definition, the report added.
According to the report, she received a call from an Apple representative about an hour later explaining that it’s hard to track the dictionaries from where they source these definitions and said that they would look into the problem. (ANI)