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over time this might affect our collective consciousness in regards to the purpose & function of the eggplant; and
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can we please just get a straightforward penis emoji already?? Half the human population has a penis attached to their bodies anyway, why are we still so prude about incorporating actual penises into mainstream vernacular & daily life?
You should probably transcribe the contents of your addendum photo for the visually impaired so their screen readers can read it
Well a little less then 50%… But yes.
The rest can grow them still. They’re just temporarily internal.
I want to send a string of emojis so offensive, it chases all the Puritans off of Plymouth Rock
Plymouth Rock is so small, one person might be able to put one foot on it.
Can we please stop these idiotic calls to de-profanify all things and pretend everything’s for every situation.
Are you aware we invented clothing super super super early on, and that humans tend to wear loincloths when there’s no other need for clothing?
Stop trying to greenfield rewrite culture. It’s like trying to tear down a bridge you’re standing on.
New Guinea men often wore hollowed out gourds tied on with string over their knobs.
I don’t get this, it should be enough to choose for yourself to use or not use profanity, but somehow it isn’t. Why?
There is no good answer to that question. Too many don’t understand the importance of context/intention, and unfortunately they are also the same ones that get easily offended on behalf of everyone else. Part of the “but, the discussion should be more about meeee, and my feelings, and how offended I am”-mindset.
Which is why “kid cosplaying as early days MJ” manages to offend anyone. Why you cannot watch the Community episode on D&D. Why they likely wouldn’t dare make Tropic Thunder today. Why many git-branches are renamed to
main, etc, ad nauseum.Even though unicode group could (and IMO should) define all things useful, I don’t see why “male-genitals-flaccid”, and variations, couldn’t be specified. Doesn’t require any application level visual implementation. But those that do, and have good reason to, can use a specification, rather than make up their own. Not really a big deal, of course.
If you can have
"1F646 🙆 face with “ok” gesture, described as a person with arms raised above the head forming a “circle”, interpreted as “OK sign” (derived from the Japanese gesture for “OK”). Intended as gender-neutral but represented as a woman on most platforms
Just, throw in a penis or two. It’s… fine
Here’s an oddity … people use 🍆 “eggplant” for penis, and 🍑 “peach” for butt, but there doesn’t seem to be a general consensus on which emoji to use for vulva. Some options include:
- Flowers such as 🌷 “tulip” or 🌹 “rose”
- 🐚 “spiral shell”; compare South American Spanish concha
- 🦪 “oyster”; which has a visible pearl (i.e. clitoris) on many systems
- Food items whose names are used as slang for vulva, such as 🍯 “honey pot” or 🌮 “taco”
- 👛 “purse”; compare the origin of the word “pussy” in English
- Any of the various cat emoji, also for “pussy”
(Really there are plenty of other options for penis as well, such as 🌽 “ear of corn” or 🕹 “joystick”, but folks seem to have settled on the eggplant.)
I’ve always thought the peach was for that.
I think it was originally for that but thots started associating it with their butt
I’m old enough to remember when a peach was a vagina.
You know, I can eat a peach for hours.
I’ve seen plenty of people online use cat emojis for vagina.
I use the peach emoji to indicate pussy, and/or implied as any fleshy hole a man would want to penetrate.
That’s what it meant back in the 90s. I was initially confused when people started using the emoji to mean butt.
The peach emoji was added in Unicode 6.0 … which came out in 2010. How were you using it in the 1990s?
I’m not talking about emoji. I’m talking about, well, talk. Words.
and songs!
I concur 🍑😉
Won’t you look at that, a winking asshole.
; *
For nr 2, in America, where most of this stuff comes from, it’s super taboo with sex and anatomy. Violence, theft and other things are ok tho… 🍆
Seeing how the gun emoji was rebranded into a water gun, I won’t be surprised if same process is attempted anywhere in the world.
Specifically the Unicode Consortium is the body that adopts new emoji. It is incorporated out of California.
yeah I remember reading how some guy came up with an idea for an emoji and the long process leading up to being invited to Silicon Valley to present his idea at this consortium and his delight after jumping through all the hoops for his emoji idea to be finally accepted
We can’t even have a gun or a middle finger emoji. I doubt we’re getting a penis one anytime soon.
🖕?
Yes, that is the middle finger. https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1F595
Well there is🖕and 🔫 in UTF 8 at least, so it is kind of there as an emoji.
But as the UTF 8 pistol is shown as a water gun this very much shows why a penis will always be denied.
The gun emoji used to be a real gun, but controversies made Apple change their emoji into a water gun. Other companies followed suit.
Yes, that’s exactly what I meant, a gun in UTF 8 had already produced a shitstorm of controversies, a penis (and vagina to complete the set) would most likely break the Internet due to the outrage of puritans and other people with strong opinions.
Because the way to prevent mass shootings is to remove people’s ability to convey the concept of gun in communication.
It’s a flawless plan with no possible downsides.
Would the black version of the penis emoji be longer than the others? Would it be an erect or a flaccid penis? Why not both? Or better even, a full range of male excitement. The applications are endless!
(I’m joking of course but it does demonstrate the silly questions you would have to answer if you were to actually implement this)
I love this kind of thought experiment. Also, as representation is paramount, what would a vulva emoji look like ? there are so many flavours to them
Where are the tits emojis?
Are the round or saggy? Big or small? Pointy? Perky? With an upward curve like a ski jump?
Big aerolas? Small? Symmetrical? Light skin tone? Dark skin tone?
Options here people!
WE NEED OPTIONS!
… On a more serious note, having just the penis added to the emote list would be sexist. Gotta be inclusive.
Also, the reason this doesn’t happen and probably won’t happen, is that emojis are universal, so everyone gets them… Including small children. I know of a lot of people who would have a problem with that.
🤮 well at least we got this for giving shrek head
Just last week I meant to make eggplant parm but got mixed up and next thing you know I was deep throating that sucker. Dinner was ruined.
Feel free to submit a request to the Unicode Consortium in April when they open up again but given vulva/vagina was previously declined I doubt they’ll accept penis https://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-requests.html
I literally used my penis instead of eggplant. Thanks Internet. Now I have a detachable penis.
This makes sense if your jalopy is a missile.
But now you can leave it at home when you think it’s going to get you in trouble.
Or I can rent it out, when I don’t need it.
meant to make eggplant parm but got mixed up and next thing you know I was deep throating that sucker. Dinner was ruined.
Yes you see what I mean! Perfectly understandable mix-up, it’s bound to happen to all of us eventually.
Never noticed 𓂺 before. Impressive.
I vote for having penis, balls, butt, labia and titty emojis.
Where does it end? Anuses (anii?), dildos, ball-gags, pierced v. unpierced, big boobs, small boobs, all in each skin tone…
The eggplant is fine. Maybe a sausage or hotdog would be better in the long run and easier to implement.
Where does it end?
It never ends. We want it ALL!
I mean they have a system where you can long press one and get different versions of it, so you could fit a bunch of them together like piercings or grouping dildos with dicks. Because we also need the various skin tones and styles so everyone feels included.
Big dicks, small dicks… Long-press for various skin tones and degrees of erectness.
The longer you press, the longer it gets?
Unironically all great suggestions
I always thought incorporating a drawing into legit character encoding is not a good idea.
We got space. Its not like a new language with unique character sets are just gonna pop up any day now. Maybe if we found intelligent aliens.
Unicode has ~150k characters, many of which are not supported by any fonts on most people’s computers. They still have space in the encoding system for another 900k. They have the space.
For comparison, the Basic Multilingual Plane in Unicode (the most “useful” part with most modern languages) only contains 65k characters and ASCII only contains 128 characters.
See Sidebar Rules: The entire showerthought must be in the title
Adults shouldn’t be using emojis, and that’s a hill I’m willing to die on
🤡
🙄
If so, I’ll gladly call myself a kid again just to be allowed to use emojis. 😁
Then perish. 😈🔪
My 42-year-old boyfriend felt the same way, until one day I made a verbal observation to him that when men include a :-) in a text to a woman, it means he wants to fuck her. He said, “Yes that’s probably true.” Over the next couple years he, by now my ex, started using colorful emojis all over the place in desperate Facebook flirting attempts, because he apparently came to the conclusion that emojis must be chick magnets somehow. But no, it just made him look like a ___________ (fill in your own adjectives, they’re probably correct).
That’s funny :-)
Ayo shoot your shot 🍑🍆
I love emojis even though I don’t use them much. I just think it’s really cool that this idea emerged and everyone got on board and now it’s almost like a whole universal language - modern hieroglyphics or whatever else you want to call it. Plus they’re just kinda fun and sometimes it’s easier to convey a reaction with a specific smiley than it is with words. Language, however beautiful and elegant, is still sometimes wanting, you know?
𓃻𓆓𓏲𓆓𓃾 𓌓𓏴𓊽𓂝𓃾 𓂝𓆓 𓉐𓂝𓇯 𓃻𓃾𓆓𓏲𓆓. 𓌙𓁶𓌙 𓀠𓂧 𓉗𓇯 𓌅𓃾 𓂋𓃾𓌓 𓇯𓉐𓂝𓃻𓃾 𓂝𓆓 𓈖𓏲𓏴𓉐𓃾 𓌙𓏲 𓉐𓂝𓏴 𓃾𓊽
