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Re: Rejected emoji proposals

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Post by gkoberger »

Definitely click on the "Document" links for each emoji. I spent about a half hour reading through them and found them incredibly fascinating.

A lot advocate for why something is important (for example, it's easy to laugh at a PMS emoji, but it's hard to disagree with "Currently, although menstruation is a core part of being a woman, it is felt to impose significant limitations on women when influenced by negative societal beliefs and taboos.").

Others are longer docs where many included proposals are now valid emojis, and it's interesting to think how some were picked and others weren't.

Re: Rejected emoji proposals

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Post by dahfizz »

tossaway0 wrote: post #4

I would like regional flags, even if it would be endless. At some point we're going to need submenus for emoji anyway. Surprised that sunglasses with frown was never submitted.

It's less of an issue with menus as Unicode.

We only have ~1 million Unicode codepoints in total. Wasting one for ever local flag would be a mistake.

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Post by miiiiiike »

I like the bloated balloon one and a period/pre-period emojis would be good.

A few women in my life (managers/directors/executives) are terrified to talk about their periods because it could be used against them. I'm going to risk turning this into one of those "Normalize " tweets.. But cramps, bloating, irritability, pain, any number of other things. I want a status emoji for headaches and "didn't sleep well". Something that says lay off the knucklehead stuff today/for a few hours. Period and pre-period ones would be good too.

If I need to I don't hesitate to start meetings with: "I had 5 hours of sleep so let's see how this goes." Let people talk about why they feel they way they feel.

Three rejected period proposals. Just make one.

Let’s do one for prostates too. I have one uncle who died of prostate cancer and another one who won’t get a prostate exam. I don't even have a walnut emoji to throw at him in the meantime.

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Post by ender341341 »

bXVsbGVy wrote: post #6

I find fascinating that many of those were rejected, but "Pregnant man" and male bride were approved. https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-man/ https://emojiguide.com/people-body/man-with-veil/

My only mildly knowledgeable guess would be that those are more "pregnant person" and as part of the work to add gender modifiers to emojis they just added male/female versions of a whole block that happened to include those.

Would definitely love if the linked chart had a reason for rejection column

Re: Rejected emoji proposals

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Post by anigbrowl »

The idea that unicode proposals have to be submitted to the unicode consortium is trash. It's be better to declare parts of the unicode standard open access (like the 2.4GHz wifi band) and just let people exchange/trade emoji sets.

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Post by kilroy123 »

pfp wrote: post #7

I guess I should feel relieved that I don't at least have my work discussions littered with these ones. But they're not too different from the set of infantilizing pictograms that did make their way into the standard & that grown-ups are now expected to deal with.

Really? We use slack and all staff has access to add new emojis. You can just imagine how that would turn out...

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Post by chrismorgan »

wsc981 wrote: post #8
bXVsbGVy wrote: post #6

I find fascinating that many of those were rejected, but "Pregnant man" and male bride were approved. https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-man/ https://emojiguide.com/people-body/man-with-veil/

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Although footnotes 4 and 5 say “This was replaced with [emoji] during the approval process.”, this shouldn’t be taken as that it was accepted in any way. Look at what it was replaced with:

MAN, ZERO WIDTH JOINER, BABY BOTTLE.

That is, bottle-feeding, which is a completely different thing and much more realistic.

So, now you have four relevant Recommended for General Interchange emoji: breast-feeding, and {person,woman,man} feeding baby.

Well, and variants with skin tone modifiers, if you count those distinctly. With the recommendation that the baby’s head be hidden, the skin tone only applying to the feeder (https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Multi_Person_Groupings).

Re: Rejected emoji proposals

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Post by bXVsbGVy »

ender341341 wrote: post #14
bXVsbGVy wrote: post #6

I find fascinating that many of those were rejected, but "Pregnant man" and male bride were approved. https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-man/ https://emojiguide.com/people-body/man-with-veil/

My only mildly knowledgeable guess would be that those are more "pregnant person" and as part of the work to add gender modifiers to emojis they just added male/female versions of a whole block that happened to include those. Would definitely love if the linked chart had a reason for rejection column

The "Pregnant Person" is another, different, variant!

https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-person/

https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-man/

https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-woman/

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