1. over time this might affect our collective consciousness in regards to the purpose & function of the eggplant; and

  2. 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?

addendum:

  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 months ago

    It doesn’t help that social media censorship is leading to a more constrained language, if anything. Not only profanities are either censored or shadowbanned by some platform algorithms, there’s also general use words for sensitive topics such as suicide, abortion and the like.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      2·
      4 months ago

      Hey as long as we ignore these problems they’ll simply evaporate. Er sorry, my bad. They’ll unexist.

  • Potatisen@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 months ago

    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… 🍆

    • rar@discuss.online
      2·
      4 months ago

      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.

  • KombatWombat@lemmy.world
    8·
    4 months ago

    Emojis are used very widely, including places meant specifically for young kids. These places would already censor words, but requiring emoji censorship as well is adding complexity to a problem that is already difficult to handle. Companies not on the ball with the release of sexual organ emojis would let kids see that until it’s added to their filter list. Kids wouldn’t know what it means, but it can lead to them googling for context or encourage a conversation with the predator using it if they ask about it.

    Honestly, I just don’t think it’s worth the headache. Eggplants and peaches and cats are already pretty easy to understand in context, and if you need more than the emojis we already have, we do have our old fashioned words.

    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
      3·
      4 months ago

      I’m not sure. They’re just Unicode characters, you could make a black list I guess ? but frankly if we’re going to add genitalia emoji, I feel it’s an opportunity to rethink our relationship with them (the genitalia). Don’t teach the children it’s shameful, create a generation of kids comfortable with the mention of sex.

    • watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      4 months ago

      I know this is a cultural thing, but it still baffles me sometimes. In countries where censoring any (even non-sexual) nudity for children is a thing, are people pretending that children don’t have genitalia? Why would children be confused about seeing genitals, or “not know what it means”? It’s not like they only grow in at puberty, we’re born with all our parts attached.

  • HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zipEnglish
    143·
    4 months ago

    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)

    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
      2·
      4 months ago

      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

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        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.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      4 months ago

      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).

    • Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      4 months ago

      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?

      • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        𓃻𓆓𓏲𓆓𓃾 𓌓𓏴𓊽𓂝𓃾 𓂝𓆓 𓉐𓂝𓇯 𓃻𓃾𓆓𓏲𓆓. 𓌙𓁶𓌙 𓀠𓂧 𓉗𓇯 𓌅𓃾 𓂋𓃾𓌓 𓇯𓉐𓂝𓃻𓃾 𓂝𓆓 𓈖𓏲𓏴𓉐𓃾 𓌙𓏲 𓉐𓂝𓏴 𓃾𓊽

  • key@lemmy.keychat.orgEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    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

  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
    01·
    4 months ago

    You should probably transcribe the contents of your addendum photo for the visually impaired so their screen readers can read it

  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    9·
    4 months ago

    over time this might affect our collective consciousness in regards to the purpose & function of the eggplant

    I think that that’s already happening. Personally, when I see an eggplant, I automatically think of penises, and it makes me a bit uncomfortable.

    As a bonus, here are some ancient Egyptian dick hieroglyphs: 𓂸 𓂺 𓂹

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      4 months ago

      Thank you for the copy/pastable hieroglyphics 𓂸 𓂺 𓂹

      I see the second one is spewing liquid, but what is the third one doing with that hook thing?

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      4 months ago

      Personally, when I see an eggplant, I automatically think of penises,

      Same! 😆 But I wouldn’t say I feel uncomfortable about it, I feel amused and I giggle. One time I’m over at my ex-husband’s house visiting my kids and his new wife said they have a thriving garden in the backyard and she offered me this ginormous eggplant (I mean it was COMICALLY huge) and I looked at it appreciatively for a moment then burst out laughing and honestly I had no use for an eggplant whatsoever cuz I don’t cook and I’m not going to just eat the thing, I declined the offer but it was so funny. I keep wondering what my ex-husband’s new wife thought about me bursting out laughing at an innocent eggplant offering. I know she’s not so innocent that she would be naive to the double entendre, my ex husband has told me her kinks in the bedroom and that’s fine LOL

      (Edit: spelled entendre the way I think it’s supposed to be spelled instead of my “smart” phone consistently spelling it in a way that looks wrong to me.