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Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is
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You're getting a bunch of joking shitpost replies, but a useful answer is that it's very common for people to become furries first and then later realize they are trans, presumably because the feelings of body dysmorphia convince you that something is mismatched between your felt sense and outward appearance, but you only nail it down as gender dysphoria later.
To add on to this: if you're a "guy" still trying to feel out some really confusing feelings, playing a vixen online allows you to explore those feelings without it impacting your real life. It's the same reason it's pretty common for trans people to report preferring to play characters of their true gender in video games. It gives you a safe, low-stakes way to explore gender.
With furry especially, that particular fandom has for decades been openly and loudly supportive of LGBTQ+ people and a very very significant percentage are queer. It's a very, very safe place for exploration.
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You're getting a bunch of joking shitpost replies, but a useful answer is that it's very common for people to become furries first and then later realize they are trans, presumably because the feelings of body dysmorphia convince you that something is mismatched between your felt sense and outward appearance, but you only nail it down as gender dysphoria later.
It's also very common for trans people to become furries. Furry conventions and meetups are a great way to exist in public without judgement. Outside of the community, you're just playing dress up, and you're anonymous. Brian from the YouTube channel Regular Car Reviews did a YouTube short that explains this pretty well.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
there is already a swastika unicode glyph. As for the Confederate Flag, they will probably be confused as, if added to unicode, it would likely be rendered as one of the actual confederate flag designs rather than the one which has become popular in recent decades.
> there is already a swastika unicode glyph It's a Chinese character and there are two variants. The left-hand variant (卍) represents 和 (peace) in religious contexts, whereas the right-hand variant represents 力 (power). The specific glyph the Nazis co-opted is the right-hand variant, and it is considered inappropriate to use in the West (for this reason, I am not reproducing the character here). The glyph appears in…
You’d be surprised how many people don’t know the Nazis ripped off that symbol.
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#26I’m having a really hard time reading with the background particles.
Hitting the reader mode of your favorite browser will help.
Usually it sounds like a weird advice and we'd want site owners to aim for readability...but TBH, blaming a site on a .pink domain on a page explaining the codepoints of an emoji flag to not be universally accessible seems beside the point.
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#27I like how the Unicode Consortium really doesn't want to accept any more flags, but you can still probably shoehorn them in if you're Apple or Google and you have a glyph sequence that is backwards compatible. One way of getting things done -- just do it.
I knew the details behind this because Windows 10 didn't include font with the trans flag by default, and so it always rendered as flag + trans symbol. I eventually installed the emoji font from the Windows 11 betas and found much of what I read to suddenly be a lot nicer looking.
P.S. I love the effects on this website :3
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
there is already a swastika unicode glyph. As for the Confederate Flag, they will probably be confused as, if added to unicode, it would likely be rendered as one of the actual confederate flag designs rather than the one which has become popular in recent decades.
> there is already a swastika unicode glyph It's a Chinese character and there are two variants. The left-hand variant (卍) represents 和 (peace) in religious contexts, whereas the right-hand variant represents 力 (power). The specific glyph the Nazis co-opted is the right-hand variant, and it is considered inappropriate to use in the West (for this reason, I am not reproducing the character here). The glyph appears in…
> Note that I am not defending this decision (nor the usage of the glyph today). One could argue that historians should use a special font that can render these two glyphs, but the problem is likely a lot more subtle than I am thinking.
Having a deliberate policy of granting bad people permanent sole ownership of whatever symbols they use seems less than ideal.
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#29I’m having a really hard time reading with the background particles.
> all javascript on this website is optional (light/dark theme, particles background, and image lightboxing) and resides outside of the document body. localstorage is used to persist light/dark theme and mono/sans font state while surfing, as well as handle an over-18 check.
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#30You really need to add a toggle for the effects, it makes it hard to read.
No they don't, it's their website.