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[...] The Emojipedia website argued that the symbol could still appear as a lifelike gun in messages sent to non-iOS users. Apple made the change in the wake of a series of shootings in the US.
However, Microsoft announced this week that its toy gun symbol would be redesigned as a more realistic-looking firearm. The emoji character system allows companies to use slightly different designs of the same basic objects, signs or expressions.
"The thing is, emojis already look different on different platforms and it does cause confusion," Jeremy Burge, editor of Emojipedia, told the BBC. "When we're dealing with guns and toys as a comparison, that's a whole new level of problems that we have there."
[...] "Apple has the most prominent emoji set that people use," said Mr Burge. "I think it has a high responsibility to be a bit cautious."
There was further criticism from web users, but a columnist in the Guardian praised the move as a statement on gun control.
"It's a smart, small part in the battle - which we're presently losing - to keep Americans safe," wrote Jean Hannah Edelstein. There have been calls previously - including from a campaign called Disarm the iPhone - to remove the handgun icon from iOS devices.
[...] Both Apple and Microsoft have said they are working with the Unicode Consortium - the body that maintains lists of emojis across different platforms.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday August 07 2016, @09:42PM
It is a common, if not universal, aspect of fascism to worry about the alleged loss of masculinity. From Heidegger to Yukio Mishima, there is a constant complaint that men are being femininized. Mishima reported that in Chinese medicine it used to be possible to differentiate the gender of a person from the pulse alone, but now-a-days men and women have the same pulse. And probably use the same emojis!
The fascist worship of the military is probably a part of this. But the whole "manly men" usually takes a decidedly homoerotic turn rather quickly, and becomes misogynist. Mussolini's masculine ideal fits right in here.
on the one side the cowardly, the soft, the hysterical, the effeminate, the cry-babies, the mommy's boys; on the other the strong, the aware, the idealists, the mystics of danger, those who triumph over fear and those who are courageous by nature, the hot-blooded heroes and the heroes of the will."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_of_masculinity_under_fascist_Italy
So the "wimp" and "limp" distinction is not significant for fascists and their fellow travellers, the gamergaters, Sad Puppies, Orson Scott Card and Scott Adams.
And if any Americans are reading this, more interesting words from the Italian Fascists!
As per issues involving masculinity, fascist rhetoric advocated for misogynistic, homophobic, and virilistic values in their campaign during the 1920s and made direct references as to the accepted and unaccepted gender codes, as explained in this passage:
"The deviant male was above all a bourgeois, egoistic and unpatriotic as well as scarcely virile (because he was unfit or reluctant to repeatedly impregnate the female); the deviant female was the too 'modern' woman, Americanized, independent and masculinized. The social damages provoked by these two converging deviants were most serious: a widespread and 'excessive loosening of family hierarchical relations, a decline in the main of that robust virility that fascism, with much love and perseverance, pursues in other ways"
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday August 07 2016, @11:58PM
Half-godwining the thread, are you?
However, you are most sinning against the logic. "Fascists promoted masculinity, A is nostalgic about masculinity, therefore A is fascist", is that what you are saying in great lengths with opera citato? Really, magister?
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As it happens, I have the entire collection of Bond movies. Pop culture, especially movies, is a great way to assess the evolution of morals over time.
Let me offer you some citations [youtube.com] about the era. By your measure, wasn't America fascist in this era?
You know? This era [youtube.com].
An era which the women needed to fight dirty [wikipedia.org] their way, or work physical demanding jobs to support herself to dance in a style which exposes every bits of her femininity [youtube.com] (safe for work, kids)
The first movie series I remember in which the protagonist had a woman as his boss and lost every fist fight was "Moonlighting" - yes, the "Die hard" Bruce Willis character took it at least one in every episode -'twas second half of the '80-ies, folks.
Finally, everybody grows old, you can choose how to do it, though [wikipedia.org]. Make sure you remember it when you have no country [wikipedia.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford