Apple's new gender neutral emojis

I wonder who's actually going to use the breastfeeding emoji.

pje · 8 years ago

A huge number of people have children during their lifetime (89% according to one quora answer [0]), and since babies require daily breastfeeding multiple times a day for at least six months, that's a lot of instances of people needing to talk about breastfeeding.

[0]: https://www.quora.com/Children-What-percentage-of-people-bec...

ErikVandeWater · 8 years ago

My point is emojis help us visualize things - try to give us an actual image instead of a word. But I imagine lots of people don't in particular want other people to visualize them breastfeeding.

s_kilk · 8 years ago

I wonder if Unicode will eventually just contain every conceivable image that anyone would ever want to reference.

d6e · 8 years ago

Yeah... I feel like emojis were a mistake.

cwbrandsma · 8 years ago

Nursing mothers and family of nursing mothers.

bsaul · 8 years ago

I guess we lost the universal purpose of the original smiley. It's yellow and looks like nobody in particular, so that it could represent anybody...

pimeys · 8 years ago

Or even better, the original smileys such as:

;)

...and my favorite :3

These are gender neutral and timeless.

eesmith · 8 years ago

Or the older ones for the PLATO system: http://www.platopeople.com/emoticons.html

mcphage · 8 years ago

Thanks to the 20+ years of The Simpsons, yellow is often used to explicitly indicate white people.

bluthru · 8 years ago

Often? Where else is it used besides The Simpsons?

_MK_ · 8 years ago

Cool, I like them. The mermaid and rock climbing ones are good additions too.

ortusdux · 8 years ago

On a related note, it's nice to see Mark Bramhill's Person in Lotus Position on this page. He has a nice 3-part podcast series on what it takes to make an emoji:

https://www.macintosh.fm/episodes/emoji-1

And 99% invisible did a nice summary interview with him:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/person-lotus-position...

NikolaeVarius · 8 years ago

Can we go back to just making arbitrary pictures from text?

Nothing PC to get offended about and infinite possibilities (up to the limits of RAM of course).

Klockan · 8 years ago

Aren't most emoji gender neutral?

andreer · 8 years ago

Are these in unicode already, or are they really Apple specific?

"Apple has revealed" is far different from "The Unicode consortium has decided."

favorited · 8 years ago

Apple co-chairs the Unicode committee on emoji.

odiroot · 8 years ago

Did we finally get a dumpling emoji?