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Everyone be using the eggplant emoji as a penis euphemism, I have two thoughts on this ...

  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:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cbfd3592-a3c9-4c26-935b-d64989de45c8.jpeg

squiblet ,
@squiblet@kbin.social avatar

What I don't get is that a dick the size or shape of an eggplant would just not work, for anything.

LemmyKnowsBest OP ,

Good point. I’ve also had that subconscious thought. I’m going to add that as my point number 3.

kbal ,
@kbal@kbin.melroy.org avatar

The colour is a little unusual as well.

GamingChairModel ,

There are lots of dick-shaped, dick-sized eggplants. Chinese eggplants and Japanese eggplants are pretty phallic, similar to cucumbers or zucchini in size/shape.

tigeruppercut ,

Japanese ones are a lot thinner.

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/4a8263de-0d92-424f-b52f-46cd120aaac5.webp

Carrots on the other hand are the opposite, being much thicker than the ones in the US

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/e45525db-e373-4933-bdb9-64bcd4a10f65.webp

intensely_human ,

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.

Agent641 ,

New Guinea men often wore hollowed out gourds tied on with string over their knobs.

Chee_Koala ,

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 , (edited )

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

Zoomboingding ,
@Zoomboingding@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b3e75d87-bdbb-479d-904a-c2535b50a659.png

LemmyKnowsBest OP ,

Eggplants come from eggplant sperm. Got it.

Dolphinfreetuna ,

I want to send a string of emojis so offensive, it chases all the Puritans off of Plymouth Rock

LemmyKnowsBest OP ,

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    Dolphinfreetuna ,

    🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🪨🍆🍌

    BreadOven ,

    8================D~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~🍆

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

    entropicdrift ,
    @entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

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

    BoBTFish ,
    @BoBTFish@kbin.social avatar

    https://www.unicodepedia.com/unicode/egyptian-hieroglyphs/130b8/egyptian-hieroglyph-d052/

    sab ,

    Never noticed 𓂺 before. Impressive.

    rar ,

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

    emptyother ,
    @emptyother@programming.dev avatar

    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.

    AdrianTheFrog ,
    @AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world avatar

    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.

    mechoman444 ,

    Well a little less then 50%… But yes.

    bhamlin ,

    The rest can grow them still. They’re just temporarily internal.

    And usually to get there, they’ve seen one.

    vatlark ,

    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.

    LemmyKnowsBest OP ,

    Thank you for your thoughtful detailed analysis. I will consider it a compliment for this popular-ish post.

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