While it took many years for hordes of women to be able to say that they were assaulted or violated in some way (of which the classic sending of the dick pic counts), it has taken even longer for Apple to at last realize they needed to arm women with the appropriate response to the expectedly puerile act of showing one’s only means to prove dominance like a monkey. That symbol? The index finger and thumb held just so as to indicate what a woman thinks not only of a man’s intellect in sending a dick pic in the first place, but the actual size of said appendage.
In short, it’s a reality check. And one that men can never get enough of when it comes to reminding them of their place in the world, despite a long-standing and inexplicable gender hierarchy with men at the top–albeit men with a certain alabaster couleur. Well, the emoji inferring a small wang does not discriminate on the ethnic background of a dick, also offering the now usual array of various hand skin tones to suit the sender’s purpose.
As part of 230 new emojis that will be added to the iPhone arsenal later this year–ranging from interracial couples to a blind person with a walking stick–it’s clear that the sea of change has reached the most common denominator in white feminism (which is still feminism even if it kills you a little inside to see people like Emma Stone make self-righteous quips like, “These four men and Greta Gerwig created their own masterpieces last year.”).
Because, to a First World woman, there is nothing that can change the course of societal repression more than the very thing she uses to falsely present herself on various apps including, but not limited to, Instagram, Raya (though the men on there would never send a dick pic) and [insert name of any other fledgling dating app here].
The iPhone is a gun. And it’s now packed with the ultimate bullet to the penis brain controlling the place where a man’s actual mind is supposed to be held (inside the head, in case you forgot). Even so, one imagines that it’s going to take more than a visual crafted of 1s and 0s to stop the daft and egotistical male from sending his unimpressive member through the ether and onto your phone.
