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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday October 31 2019, @04:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the waffle-emoji-FTW dept.

All the new emoji in iOS 13.2

Apple released iOS 13.2 earlier today, and the update includes 398 new emoji. There's a bunch of brand-new ones (I love the otter) as well as emoji to represent people with disabilities, gender-neutral emoji (following in Google's footsteps), and a new way to select the skin colors of each individual in the holding hands emoji.

The new batch of emojis also help to normalize menstruation:

For too long, those of us with periods and clitorises have been brutally silenced from talking about our cramps and orgasms by Emoji's lack of yonic and vagina-related emojis. While we gab and gossip freely with eggplant dicks, the best digital icon we currently have to talk about periods and vaginas are the taco (no shade to tacos, it just sounds like a joke a 13-year-old boy would make), and the bloody syringe, which feels unnecessarily gruesome (we're trying to teach kids that periods aren't scary).

This dark time has come to an end. Apple has released iOS 13.2, and the update includes 398 new emoji, including a gorgeous menstrual-red blood drop. [...] The collection also includes a luscious, dignified and highly yonic oyster emoji, replete with a pearly clit, for all your sexting and storytelling needs.

Also at Emojipedia and SFGATE.

Previously: Unicode Consortium Adding 230 New Emojis in Emoji 12.0


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  • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Friday November 01 2019, @01:42AM

    by stretch611 (6199) on Friday November 01 2019, @01:42AM (#914422)

    I understand what you are saying and agree with it.

    There is a difference between describing a person based on their traits and using those traits to derisively talk about someone. It is fine to use a descriptive term.
    e.g. if you are attending a group gather of any kind and someone comes up to you and says, "Can you tell me who Mrs Jones is?" and you respond "She is the black woman seated at the table." There is nothing wrong with that. However, if the same person comes up to you and asks "What type of person is Mrs Jones?" and you respond in a sneering tone, "she is one of those blacks" that is obviously not a positive response.

    When you use a minority term to accurately describe a person it is fine, when you use minority terms to derisively define people it is never ok. Context matters.

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