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  1. over time this might affect our collective consciousness in regards to the purpose & function of the eggplant; and

  2. can we please just get a straightforward penis emoji already?? Half the human population has a penis attached to their bodies anyway, why are we still so prude about incorporating actual penises into mainstream vernacular & daily life?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

You should probably transcribe the contents of your addendum photo for the visually impaired so their screen readers can read it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Never noticed 𓂺 before. Impressive.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

Here's an oddity ... people use 🍆 "eggplant" for penis, and 🍑 "peach" for butt, but there doesn't seem to be a general consensus on which emoji to use for vulva. Some options include:

  • Flowers such as 🌷 "tulip" or 🌹 "rose"
  • 🐚 "spiral shell"; compare South American Spanish concha
  • 🦪 "oyster"; which has a visible pearl (i.e. clitoris) on many systems
  • Food items whose names are used as slang for vulva, such as 🍯 "honey pot" or 🌮 "taco"
  • 👛 "purse"; compare the origin of the word "pussy" in English
  • Any of the various cat emoji, also for "pussy"

(Really there are plenty of other options for penis as well, such as 🌽 "ear of corn" or 🕹 "joystick", but folks seem to have settled on the eggplant.)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I use the peach emoji to indicate pussy, and/or implied as any fleshy hole a man would want to penetrate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You could use the Phallus hieroglyph: 𓂸

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Ooh yes, How do you find that out in the wild? or is it something I should keep in my repository to copy and paste

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Eggplants come from eggplant sperm. Got it.

[–] [email protected] 126 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

There's actually kind of a funny history behind the Eggplant emoji. Emoji are Japanese in origin and around the time they were taking off there was this Survivor like gameshow where one guy was confined to his apartment and he had to try and survive past the basics by applying for and winning sweepstakes items from various promotions from newspapers and magazines.

The participant's shortened form name was Nasu - which means "eggplant" so since the guy started the challenge with literally nothing including clothes they put a little Eggplant over his junk in post. That became a Japanese cultural meme that translated over once emoji became more widely adopted.

You probably won't see actual dick emoji in the actual set because emoji are an all ages access thing and exist on an international level. It's actually kind of funny how different cultures use the same finite set. Like in China how the angel emoji is construed as "I'm going to end you". One could see the things as becoming essentially a hieroglyphic set where they gain their own full individual linguistic meanings.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Is that the show where the contestant came out about how horribly abusive the production was? Like he was tricked/coerced into doing it and basically imprisoned the whole time?

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 8 months ago (1 children)

emoji are an all ages access thing

Last time I checked, penises are an all ages thing too. But who knows, I’m no urologist.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (10 children)

They are an all ages thing for some... But remember when I said international? I don't particularly like puritanical prudishness but the conservative held belief as those things being inappropriate for all points of society is also pretty common.

I doubt those who keep the emoji want any hassle of the conservative European diaspora middle East, the Americas, facets of Africa and China getting their knickers in a twist.

In the world of stockholder retaliation some things people count as just above their pay grade.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

What I don't get is that a dick the size or shape of an eggplant would just not work, for anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The colour is a little unusual as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Good point. I've also had that subconscious thought. I'm going to add that as my point number 3.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Adults shouldn't be using emojis, and that's a hill I'm willing to die on

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

My 42-year-old boyfriend felt the same way, until one day I made a verbal observation to him that when men include a :-) in a text to a woman, it means he wants to fuck her.

He said, "Yes that's probably true."

Over the next couple years he, by now my ex, started using colorful emojis all over the place in desperate Facebook flirting attempts,

because he apparently came to the conclusion that emojis must be chick magnets somehow.

But no, it just made him look like a ___________ (fill in your own adjectives, they're probably correct).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Ayo shoot your shot 🍑🍆

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I vote for having penis, balls, butt, labia and titty emojis.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Where does it end? Anuses (anii?), dildos, ball-gags, pierced v. unpierced, big boobs, small boobs, all in each skin tone…

The eggplant is fine. Maybe a sausage or hotdog would be better in the long run and easier to implement.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Where does it end?

It never ends. We want it ALL!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I mean they have a system where you can long press one and get different versions of it, so you could fit a bunch of them together like piercings or grouping dildos with dicks. Because we also need the various skin tones and styles so everyone feels included.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Big dicks, small dicks… Long-press for various skin tones and degrees of erectness.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Unironically all great suggestions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I always thought incorporating a drawing into legit character encoding is not a good idea.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Just last week I meant to make eggplant parm but got mixed up and next thing you know I was deep throating that sucker. Dinner was ruined.

Feel free to submit a request to the Unicode Consortium in April when they open up again but given vulva/vagina was previously declined I doubt they'll accept penis https://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-requests.html

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I literally used my penis instead of eggplant. Thanks Internet. Now I have a detachable penis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This makes sense if your jalopy is a missile.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

meant to make eggplant parm but got mixed up and next thing you know I was deep throating that sucker. Dinner was ruined.

Yes you see what I mean! Perfectly understandable mix-up, it's bound to happen to all of us eventually.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (2 children)

For nr 2, in America, where most of this stuff comes from, it's super taboo with sex and anatomy. Violence, theft and other things are ok tho... 🍆

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Seeing how the gun emoji was rebranded into a water gun, I won't be surprised if same process is attempted anywhere in the world.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Specifically the Unicode Consortium is the body that adopts new emoji. It is incorporated out of California.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

yeah I remember reading how some guy came up with an idea for an emoji and the long process leading up to being invited to Silicon Valley to present his idea at this consortium and his delight after jumping through all the hoops for his emoji idea to be finally accepted

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