What’s So Funny About the iPad?
February 1, 2010
Is Steve Jobs’ Cupertino campus just one big boy’s club… or what?
The Internet tsunami that swept over the world last Wednesday started just after 10 a.m. PST. Luckily, the tidal wave was made up mostly of bad puns and schoolboy giggling. Susan Kim (inset), a New York-based Korean American playwright, graphic novelist, TV writer and co-author of FLOW: The Cultural History of Menstruation, comes clean on this mess of junior high school humor and watercooler snickering with a spot-on Huffington Post piece which rags on Steve iJob’s first marketing flub in a while which begs the question: Did the Apple marketing team even bother to vet the product’s name before it’s Jan. 25 27 unveiling?
“People apparently find any mention of menstruation, however fleeting and indirect, to be so uncomfortable-making as to be truly hilarious. Humor is, after all, partly rooted in anxiety,” writes Kim.
- Read Kim’s Jan. 28 HuffPo article here.
- About Susan Kim, IMDb / St. Martin’s Press
- Myths About Your Period, marie claire
- More by Susan Kim: Menstruation and Otherwise, HuffPo
