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:

  • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 months ago

    There’s actually kind of a funny history behind the Eggplant emoji. Emoji are Japanese in origin and around the time they were taking off there was this Survivor like gameshow where one guy was confined to his apartment and he had to try and survive past the basics by applying for and winning sweepstakes items from various promotions from newspapers and magazines.

    The participant’s shortened form name was Nasu - which means “eggplant” so since the guy started the challenge with literally nothing including clothes they put a little Eggplant over his junk in post. That became a Japanese cultural meme that translated over once emoji became more widely adopted.

    You probably won’t see actual dick emoji in the actual set because emoji are an all ages access thing and exist on an international level. It’s actually kind of funny how different cultures use the same finite set. Like in China how the angel emoji is construed as “I’m going to end you”. One could see the things as becoming essentially a hieroglyphic set where they gain their own full individual linguistic meanings.

    • key@lemmy.keychat.orgEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Is that the show where the contestant came out about how horribly abusive the production was? Like he was tricked/coerced into doing it and basically imprisoned the whole time?

    • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      emoji are an all ages access thing

      Last time I checked, penises are an all ages thing too. But who knows, I’m no urologist.

      • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        They are an all ages thing for some… But remember when I said international? I don’t particularly like puritanical prudishness but the conservative held belief as those things being inappropriate for all points of society is also pretty common.

        I doubt those who keep the emoji want any hassle of the conservative European diaspora middle East, the Americas, facets of Africa and China getting their knickers in a twist.

        In the world of stockholder retaliation some things people count as just above their pay grade.

    • Michal@programming.dev
      1·
      11 months ago

      It’s up to the app/os how emoji are rendered. You can hack your os to display whatever you want instead of 🍆 , or add support for 👨🍆 with zero width space between, but it’s less likely to be used.

    • zout@kbin.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      Damn, after reading the first paragraph I really tought this was going to include masturbation by insertion of an eggplant. Now I’m a little disappointed to be honest.

  • fubo@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 months ago

    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.)

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
    1·
    11 months ago

    We can’t even have a gun or a middle finger emoji. I doubt we’re getting a penis one anytime soon.

  • BreadOven@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 months ago

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    Edit: Sorry to everyone, but I think I just won the Internet. You’re welcome, in advance.

  • vatlark@lemmy.worldM
    1·
    11 months ago

    I’m sure it’s not a surprise that this post was reported. From what I saw, the conversation remained focused on society and anatomy and remained far less graphic than a basic anatomy textbook. Thanks everyone.

    It was also reported for not having the whole thought in the title.

    Great post.

  • Potatisen@lemmy.world
    0·
    11 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… 🍆

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      11 months ago

      Specifically the Unicode Consortium is the body that adopts new emoji. It is incorporated out of California.

      • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOP
        1·
        11 months ago

        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

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    0·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      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?

      • okamiueru@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        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

  • rar@discuss.online
    0·
    11 months ago

    I always thought incorporating a drawing into legit character encoding is not a good idea.

    • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • emptyother@programming.dev
      1·
      11 months ago

      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.