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Transgender Lobsters

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 03/08/2018 12:33

Seriously:

Lobsters are low-key kinda trans, they are gynandromorphic (can have both male and female characteristics)

This is important because:

Every year the trans flag is one of the most requested emojis

For unicode to ignore our community is almost like a form of erasure and stinks of transphobia, they see the proposals every year, they know its been the most requested emoji the last couple of years

So:

The new campaign, Claws Out For Trans, is encouraging people to sign its petition and use the lobster emoji

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/trans-activists-lobster-emoji-flag-charlie-craggs-unicode-nail-it-a8474476.html

OP posts:

GeorgeFayne · 03/08/2018 18:31

I, for one, think lobster is delicious. Freshly steamed, melted butter...yeah. Nice glass of rose. Mmm....my mouth is watering.

BettyDuMonde · 03/08/2018 18:12

🤫💩

LangCleg · 03/08/2018 18:11

Is there a gobshite emoji? Because if not, I think I have been erased too. Which emoji should I appropriate to register my disapproval?

BettyDuMonde · 03/08/2018 17:52

They’d been in the fridge for ages, they were super chilled

YessicaHaircut · 03/08/2018 17:51

Blimey, some pretty serious mental gymnastics required for this one.

Somehow: “TWAW, TMAM, how dare anyone suggest otherwise, you are othering us, you are transphobic etc. etc.”

Yet also: “I am outraged that there is no trans flag emoji! You are erasing us, our trans identity is not being represented, you are transphobic etc. etc.”

There are honestly not enough eyerolls in the world.

LeiaTheSlaya · 03/08/2018 17:51

And you still have fingers to type? or are you bashing your keyboard indiscriminately?

BettyDuMonde · 03/08/2018 17:50

I got in trouble as a teenager because I tried to set the lobsters free that were on that night’s menu at the restaurant I washed up in.

I was out in the car park with them, removing the elastic bands from their claws, with the chef shouting at me.

terryleather · 03/08/2018 17:40

Not sure I'd want something ugly, snippy and overhyped representing me

I would! It could be my own spirit animal

LeiaTheSlaya · 03/08/2018 17:29

You pick me up from school,
You attended all my sporting functions.
You bought me a car,
Gave me use of a credit card.

But how can I feel pain?
How can I feel pain?
How can I feel pain
When you're being so supportive?"

that brilliant & so very apt!

silentcrow · 03/08/2018 17:22

Sigh. Every time I see something like this I get Bill Bailey's "American Rock" stuck in my head:

"You pick me up from school,
You attended all my sporting functions.
You bought me a car,
Gave me use of a credit card.

But how can I feel pain?
How can I feel pain?
How can I feel pain
When you're being so supportive?"

If I remember rightly it's from "Part Troll"

womanformallyknownaswoman · 03/08/2018 17:21

For unicode to ignore our community is almost like a form of erasure and stinks of transphobia,

WTF!!! Erasure - let me tell you about erasure.....

birdbandit · 03/08/2018 17:14

Eye roll emoji.

FloralBunting · 03/08/2018 17:14

I think this whole thing is the epitome of literal violence. And it's really made this thread a special experience to have a TRA come in and underline that this terrible injustice of no Transflag emoji has been responded to by co-opting an unrelated emoji and making that a trans emoji instead. Because that how TRAs roll.

And yes, I am mocking you. Because seriously, did any of you honestly think this kind of thing would elicit sympathetic coos and stroking?

womanformallyknownaswoman · 03/08/2018 17:05

Worse problem I ever had was not having an emoji designed for me or my underrepresented majority sex.

I was remarking earlier in a message how none of the emoji feelings matches up to what I see in the face or how I use them. I find many of them very stereotyped and there are no overtly feminist ones ♀️♀️

I think if women designed them all they'd be different

redexpat · 03/08/2018 15:43

Best thread title ever!

LangCleg · 03/08/2018 15:40

It's the hill to die on.

FloralBunting · 03/08/2018 15:40

This clinches it. The most oppressed people in the entire universe don't have their very own emoji. The struggle is real!

Alicethroughtheblackmirror · 03/08/2018 15:39

I thought it was satire as I'm afraid the first thing that popped into my head was Brass Eye and certain people having more genes in common with a crab (there's no real evidence but it is scientific fact). Which is a very unfortunate and in no way appropriate connection. So maybe they shouldn't encourage it.

ElenOfTheWays · 03/08/2018 15:28

Dammit. Now I have 'Rock Lobster" as an earworm.

2rebecca · 03/08/2018 14:20

I thought they didn't want to be recognised as trans because they're all real women now and TWAW.
Love the idea of Peterson fans and transwomen fighting over the lobsters.
Not sure I'd want something ugly, snippy and overhyped representing me but they obviously identify with them...

Waddlelikeapenguin · 03/08/2018 13:54

i thought this was a piss take - it's funnier that it's true 😂
Of course they couldnt choose a mammal now could they because mammals cant change sex

KreigersClones · 03/08/2018 13:44

Batshit

Original poster

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 03/08/2018 13:40

I'm beginning to think you didn't read the OP that states that:

Trans flag most requested emoji
Unicode ignoring requests for Trans flag is erasure
Activists using another new emoji to represent trans
Lobster emoji chosen as are "kinda trans"

OP posts:

MeetTheNewAccountSameAsTheOld · 03/08/2018 13:37

I'm sorry - how is that relevant? The lobster was chosen instead of other new emojis because it is "trans".

Beginning to think that you haven't read the article at all. Unicode chose the lobster instead of the trans flag. Unicode didn't choose the lobster because it was trans, and chose the lobster even though it was down the list of requested emojis.

So activists are using the newly released lobster symbol as satire to make a point to Unicode, and I'd imagine they'll continue to do so until Unicode pulls its collective head out its Peterson-fawning ass.

CholloDeNombre · 03/08/2018 13:33

....is this satire?

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