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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?
addendum:
You could use the Phallus hieroglyph: 𓂸
Ooh yes, How do you find that out in the wild? or is it something I should keep in my repository to copy and paste
I learned about it here on Lemmy, when needed I just google it
Wikipedia has lists of unicode characters under articles about those unicode blocks, you can see the unicode blocks and future proposals here
Very conspicuously absent on my Windows computer
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.
Hey as long as we ignore these problems they’ll simply evaporate. Er sorry, my bad. They’ll unexist.
We can’t even have a gun or a middle finger emoji. I doubt we’re getting a penis one anytime soon.
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.
We don’t have an emoji face for sadistic glee either. For the longest time the only angry face was a devil face.
😈 sadistic glee, see he’s got a little mischievous smile there
🖕?
Yes, that is the middle finger. https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1F595
Damn wrong one copied… Should not do that tired 😩 Will correct it later
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
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?
From wikipedia: phallus with folded cloth
Like a fancy butler with a towel on his arm, except, you know. On his dick.
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.
As a child of divorced parents I am impressed with the seemingly mature working relationship you and your ex husband have maintained.
Ah! that may appear to be the case from this little anecdote I just shared, but believe me there is a lot of drama, for example the stepmom told me next time she’ll let me visit them is June 2025 for my daughter’s high school graduation🤦♀️ There’s SOOOO much drama and that woman is extremely controlling, she puts on a pleasant facade but she is a domineering, authoritative, control freak, and we all just let it slide because nobody wants any drama. She’s the one that creates all the drama. So we simply let her do that because we are not interested in drama.
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)
You should probably transcribe the contents of your addendum photo for the visually impaired so their screen readers can read it
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’ve seen plenty of people online use cat emojis for vagina.
I’m old enough to remember when a peach was a vagina.
Odd that they should represent either as peaches tend to be much less palatable.
I use the peach emoji to indicate pussy, and/or implied as any fleshy hole a man would want to penetrate.
I concur 🍑😉
Won’t you look at that, a winking asshole.
; *
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!
If I had my little way
Peachussy
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.
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.
I’d imagine they’re already censoring U+1F595 🖕, and that’s already a thing.
wait, have I been using the wrong one? 👃
Dr Andre Nosedick!
Human horn.
Never noticed 𓂺 before. Impressive.
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.
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.That said. Even though unicode group could (and IMO should) define all things useful, I don’t see why “male-genitals-flaccid” 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.
New Guinea men often wore hollowed out gourds tied on with string over their knobs.
Well a little less then 50%… But yes.
The rest can grow them still. They’re just temporarily internal.
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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.
Unironically all great suggestions
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 and 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?
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 some long-winded detailed article about 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
I always thought incorporating a drawing into legit character encoding is not a good idea.
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.
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.
