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iOS 10 Beta 4 Includes Dozens of New Emoji Promoting Gender Equality
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I usually find those are the ones being triggered by something, it's as if they're easily offended by others being easily offended.
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What's this SJW some people say?
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I've noticed that too. I find a lot of alt right egalitarian edgelords get hurt over words like this. Like how 'gamergate' types complain about left wing social manipulation to achieve their goals, yet they also en masses email companies to get their way.
So much hypocrasy.
You do understand how emoji works, right? It's not Apple doing anything except implementing what the Unicode Consortium has decided will be included in different versions of the character set.
Unicode decides to include "male police officer" and "female police officer," "man getting hair cut" and "female getting haircut," etc. in whichever version. After that, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and everyone else then decides how they will implement and display the Unicode character on that platform.
Apple isn't being political at all. They're displaying pictographs that are a part of a standard.
Perfectly clear, thank you.
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It's cute that you guys think that.
PC culture run amuck. Next release will include safe space symbol, gender neutral bathroom symbol and Furries
C'mon, guys........its so simple! .....maybe you need a refresher course. It's all emojis these days! Now you prepare that Fetzer valve with some 3-in-1 oil and some gauze pads. And I'm gonna need 'bout ten quarts of anti-freeze, preferably Prestone. No, no make that Quaker State.
I suppose you think they should also remove the knife and the hammer and the bomb and the cigarette since those can also be used to kill people. And I guess while we're on the subject they probably better remove cops since cops sometimes kill people. Oh and also military men, they kill people too. In fact, let's remove all the food emoji, since food has killed lots of people. Oh and let's remove the flag of any country who has ever killed anyone. While we're at it, let's just remove all the people emoji since people have killed more people than anything ever, besides the mosquito. Luckily there's no mosquito emoji cuz then we'd just have to remove that one too.
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Apple chose to implement some of the standard, not all. Do you think they randomly choose which ones to add? No, there's a specific reason, and it's a political one.
Speaking of gender equality, there's a girl in a crown emoji and a bride emoji, so why there's no guy in a crown and a groom emoji? We got an undistinguishable guy and a girl in a bearskin hat (really, two emojis for that???), dancing males dressed in rabbit ears and a body (where have you seen that?? At a 19th century music hall? Could at least dress them in a suit or something like that) but not a broom. All the dumbest cases are covered except the most obvious ones.
That emoji equality is as fake as anything else.
That emoji equality is as fake as anything else.
Lolz! They did? You honestly think that by including some tiny pictographs in a limited released developer preview build of an OS that Apple is making a grand "political statement?" Bruh, if they wanted to actually make some sort of statement, they would just come out and say it; They wouldn't limit it to a handful of emojis in a character set that includes 1,000 other cartoons. How many times in the past has Apple been overtly, or in this case as you think covertly political? They're just little icons man; If they bother you that much, don't use them, or switch to Android. It'll be a few years before you get that update. Maybe by that time there'll be a guy and a girl emoji wearing tinfoil hats.
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I'm guessing not. Cause that way, President The Donald would step in, make Apple do what's right and remove it.
[doublepost=1470113299][/doublepost]I'm surprised nobody is screaming bloody murder about how they added a gay pride flag emoji yet.
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According to the CDC smoking causes 6 million deaths per year worldwide, yet we have a cigarette emoji.
What's funny is they were. We as humans like to make things more complicated so we feel special and important. Can't leave well enough alone.
Lol. Do you really think people would complain about this if apple would actually give their products as much focus as they used to?
It just adds to a long line of culture warriorism that is really starting to annoy most people.
I'd applaud if if its really driven out of equality. Men with long hair, women with short hair. Men giving birth to babies and women doing all the heavy lifting digging in mines.....
In reality it's driven by a sense of political correctness. Not real equality. It's fear of the vocal minority at the expense of the sensible majority.
The sensible majority wants Apple to innovate on new products and features for all gender, race and orientations. Only innovation is truly gender, race or orientation neutral. Everything else detracts from this and only furthers ingrains the divide amongst us all.
In reality it's driven by a sense of political correctness. Not real equality. It's fear of the vocal minority at the expense of the sensible majority.
The sensible majority wants Apple to innovate on new products and features for all gender, race and orientations. Only innovation is truly gender, race or orientation neutral. Everything else detracts from this and only furthers ingrains the divide amongst us all.
Thought so. But then why is there only a "princess" emoji and no "prince"??
Not quite. That's a Queen's Guard:
That's a Yeoman:
That's not the same.
Well, that goes for granted. But aside from that…?
Sure they would. There have been all kinds of complaints about all kinds of things (even very successful game changing ones, like the introduction of the iPod, in these very forums, for example) during all kinds of times at Apple.
I personally think it's silly and ridiculous to include so many options, but seriously, what are they really doing? They are implementing new emoji that the Unicode consortium has added to the next version. Apple didn't just one day decide "we're going to be good SJWs and add new emoji options on our own, only for our platform so we can be progressive/inclusive/whatever." If Unicode didn't include it, and Apple just added them for the hell of it, it would be pointless; Nobody else on any other platform would be able to see them if we sent them.
But even more to the point, what is the harm? So what if Unicode adds a bunch of ridiculous emoji to the set? All the people who for whatever reason feel it's necessary to have a chick cop get that option. Great for them that they have the option now in addition to what everyone else uses. If I ever see a hot chick cop I wouldn't mind getting frisked by, I might use it. What would concern me even more is if people started complaining about what could and couldn't or shouldn't be included as something. You don't like them? Don't use them. But don't be a fascist and bitch about what other people want to include in their text messages.
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Adding extra emoji to give people who want to use them doesn't divide us at all. How is adding extra options for anything contributing to divisiveness? I don't hear many people, except on the "anti pc" side arguing to remove anything, or restricting anyone else's options.
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A female Queen's guard with a bearskin cap?
I know I'm being pedantic here, but she's a Yeoman Warder who don't wear bearskins. The bearskins (in the UK) are worn by the Foot Guards (Welsh, Irish, Scots, Coldstream and Grenadier Guards) on ceremonial duties. These are combat units of the British Army, and as women are currently not permitted to serve in combat units, you won't see a female Foot Guard.
Of course, there may be other countries in which female soldiers perform ceremonial duties wearing bearskins, although the UK is arguably the one most people would first think of.
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They have included a gender neutral bathroom symbol since the beginning. Sorry for triggering.
The current design is 3D, it is just based on the "aqua" motif. They're moving to 3D matte to move beyond that early 2000s era candy iMac design theme.