T-Mobile CEO Tweets Apology for Calling Other Carriers "Fuckers" Who Are "Raping" Their Customers

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I don't consider apologies 'to those I've offended' to be genuine, sincere or even contrite. First, you have to acknowledge that you did something that you agree is wrong. Second, you have to apologize for doing something wrong.

biffp on June 19, 2014 at 4:16 PM

If its true, its not libelous.

MarkyMark on June 19, 2014 at 4:32 PM

Everybody loves a good rape-metaphor, except perhaps those of us who stand a 1 in 6 chance of being raped, in our lifetime.

But why pander to a buncha bitches, anyway, amirite, fellas?

judybrowni on June 19, 2014 at 4:34 PM

@3
Yup.

caution&daring on June 19, 2014 at 4:35 PM

And, even leaving aside the horrible rape analogy, a T-Mobile contract is just as shitty as an AT&T, Sprint or Verizon one. All phone companies are trying to fuck your wallet. Go Ting!

Fnarf on June 19, 2014 at 4:42 PM

historically, it does have other meanings:

4. an act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation: the rape of the countryside.

Max Solomon on June 19, 2014 at 4:47 PM

If there's one thing you don't want to do in our day and age, it's excite the wrath of Male Feminists.

They might gang up on you with their wiry beards and brush all your skin off.

Like the Mayor of Whatever, USA might do:

http://www.marketmenot.com/bud-light-wha…

Or the Serious Fun Guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq2KvrSx…

Or anyone with the last name of Galifianakis.

Brushed to a bloody mass of sinew.

Terrible.

Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on June 19, 2014 at 5:01 PM

Bad form to call attention to "rape culture" when your chief marketing for several years was based on the signature pink color and Carly Foulkes clad in latex on a crotch rocket.

ChefJoe on June 19, 2014 at 5:09 PM

At least he had the decency to admit that he shouldn't have said that and to own the fact that he offended people rather than referring to them as "those who were offended", passive voice.

venomlash on June 19, 2014 at 5:18 PM

@6 - I don't think you know what you're taking about. T-Mobile doesn't have contracts.

on June 19, 2014 at 5:19 PM

This was at their event featuring Macklemore last night at the Paramount?

Josh Bis on June 19, 2014 at 5:28 PM

@13 Yeah, you don't get it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/health…

oubliette on June 19, 2014 at 5:34 PM

This was a genuine apology for a genuinely offensive statement. He admitted the error and apologized without qualification ("anybody who may have been offended", "if anybody was offended"). Better apology than most for a less offensive statement than many that go without acknowledgement.

stinky on June 19, 2014 at 6:21 PM

http://verizarape.com

Also in Spanish - violate = violar. Rape = violar. Not a specific word like rape in English. Food for thought.

tabski on June 19, 2014 at 6:35 PM

Pillage, another word often found near rape, would have been a better choice

8Way on June 19, 2014 at 6:39 PM

Yeah it's not like a stranger staff wrote that economic policies were raping the European countries...oh wait Goldy did that in the morning news post on slog and Paul hypocrite constant said nothing then...

j2patter on June 19, 2014 at 7:36 PM

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…

where was your outrage when the person doing this worked the same building? I called Goldy out on it in the thread cause this bs from men is wrong CEO or stranger staff.

So when are you going to apologize?

j2patter on June 19, 2014 at 7:43 PM

@15

Way to go all MRA tangential.

Yes, if you change the subject from sexual violence to all violence, the numbers would be different. Very insightful, ignoring the detail that women are also the victims of other forms of violence and intimidation, and that it's off-topic in a discussion about why the CEO apologized for his comment.

oubliette on June 19, 2014 at 9:54 PM

@21
Are you the school teacher and there are only certain topics and you get to decide? Fuck that.

I was responding to @13 and @14 (which included YOU.)
Don't like it? STFU.

caution&daring on June 19, 2014 at 10:51 PM

@18 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJqEKYbh-…

on June 20, 2014 at 3:39 AM

Wait, people actually follow the CEO of T-Mobile on Twitter? Why?

Root on June 20, 2014 at 7:41 AM

The big phone carriers may not be rapists, but they sure do suck.

Always east coaster on June 20, 2014 at 7:59 AM

lets start a new campaign and ban the word rape. in fact lets ban all words and just turn our preferred form of communication into knowing looks, glances, and exasperated sighs.

i'll go first

0.o :/ :{( ˜\˜

on June 20, 2014 at 9:04 AM

@22

Nope, I was just pointing out the tiresome derail. But your trite, abusive mannerisms win the Internet yet again, so I'll STFU, as requested.

oubliette on June 20, 2014 at 9:17 AM

@27
Works for me, dear.

caution&daring on June 20, 2014 at 9:59 AM

So does every post that doesn't jive with Slog groupthink get deleted now?

kitschnsync on June 20, 2014 at 2:01 PM

@29: No, but they do seem to be cracking down on derailing and abusive, homophobic, racist, and misogynist comments. For example, in the falling out of love with the Pope thread, Seattleblues expressed his distaste for gay marriage in two different comments. In one he called gays deviant and vile and in the other he didn't . First comment was pulled and the second one still stands.

@28: Oh Grasshopper. Still so much for you to learn.

Lissa on June 22, 2014 at 11:26 AM

T-Mobile CEO Tweets Apology for Calling Other Carriers "Fuckers" Who Are "Raping" Their Customers

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