Tim Cock: The Phallic Symbolism in Apple’s AirPods and CEO Tim Cook’s Sexist Treatment of Women in the Workplace
On December of 2016, Apple released their much-lauded Bluetooth earphones, the AirPods. Though initially criticized for their uncomfortable fit and mediocre audio quality, AirPods have since been upgraded and tweaked, with the Pro models even supporting dynamic noise-cancelling features and improved sound.
What has not changed, however, is the uncomfortable styling which leaves a large tubular protrusion sticking from the user’s ears.
When current Apple CEO, Tim Cook, first took his place as Steve Jobs’s replacement in 2011, it signaled a great, more progressive, change in Apple’s leadership. Instead of a straight white man, we finally got a gay white man.
Tim Cook filled in Jobs’s gaping hole — changing the face of business in America permanently, and becoming the first openly gay Fortune 500 CEO.
Unfortunately, this revolutionary change in leadership did not correlate to a change in how the company views sexism. According to an anonymous source, this change of leadership has allegedly only further pressured women to design phallic products; from the Apple Pencil to the AirPods, the proverbial penis envy has turned into a great penile lust in Apple’s technology.
This sort of pressure has allegedly caused women on Apple’s core development team to redesign functional devices to resemble objects Cook has personally approved — going as far as to send pictures of bananas, dildos, and even the CEO’s own penis to women on the development team.
“I got this highly inappropriate email from Tim the other day, suggesting that the iPhone 12 should be scrapped and redesigned from scratch, with a ‘girthy’ antenna sticking out of the top of the phone’s aluminum shell. Tim said that this revolutionary new design would allow for a better signal instead of integrating the antenna into a band in the aluminum like we’d done before,” one anonymous source said.
“The email said, ‘I only trust you because I know you’ve had plenty of experience with this sort of design before, being as you’re thirty-eight and single’ [I’m actually thirty-nine and highly independent]. He then attached a link to a vibrating massager and asked if I’d show the other women on the team my particular model for reference. I’ve never been so humiliated in my life.”
Tim’s cock may be a topic of interest in the tech industry, but for women with a sense of dignity, it’s a source of stress, condemnation, and anger.
