A Period Emoji Has Received The Go-Ahead

[Notevenmyrealname]

I’m all for removing the shame of periods but when would you ever need this? I can’t say my menstrual cycle comes up that often when I’m texting or updating my FB status.

www.vogue.co.uk/article/period-emoji

I imagine teens might?

I imagine it will be appropriated by some people.

Ha! I am on the borderline of millennial and this makes me feel like one. I'm often messaging my friends about my period!

"A survey found that almost half of women aged 18-34 believed that a period emoji would make it easier to discuss periods with friends and partners."

Wow. Millenial communication skills are at an all time high.

Seriously though, I can just see smart arse men using this in text messages to each other because their female colleague didn't smile sweetly when one of winked at her earlier.

I would totally use this in group chats to turn down plans

StrippingTheVelvet
I never thought of that. I take it back.

Marbles that was my first thought that it would be used in a sarcastic way by men more than by women, but maybe I’m assuming the worst.

I’m sure it will be considered transphobic and therefore banned.

That's a rather lovely drop of blood. I can see people like me using it erroneously when we cut our finger. Or donate blood. Fun times beckon.

Errrrrrr, same here. Periods are definitely one of my more Millennial character traits.

I've also been known to make my poor (all male) higher ups desperately uncomfortable by mentioning period pain. (Side note: much love to my direct manager for offering me a lower back massage because it helps his wife but only if I was totally comfortable with it - that was adorable!)

So I'm on board with the period emoji.

Ha! The DM caused outrage amongst it’s male readers by saying that there is going to be a ‘small penis’ emoji. They’d faint at the thought of a period emoji .

Saw this earlier on Sky News App. But they have it this way. (Screenshot as not sure how to link)

I'm in my 30s and I'd use this emoji.

Interesting that it's reported by Sky as "gender non specific " rather than "same sex couples ".

I would think “give blood” with that emoji!

Interesting that it's reported by Sky as "gender non specific " rather than "same sex couples ".

Looks like twins to me.

I'll be using it often. I volunteer for the Red Box Project and talk 💧 every day. (Blue because we can't yet cope with red being used in conjunction with sanitary products).

Although as someone who ttc for 5 years, the celebration background does annoy me somewhat.

IT

IS

NOT

A

PERIOD

EMOJI.

unicode.org/emoji/charts-12.0/emoji-released.html

Name: drop of blood
Keywords: blood donation | medicine | menstruation

It's literally a drop of blood.

You could use it to say you are going to murder someone, in combination with a gun or knife emoji.

It's a drop of blood, it hasn't been implemented yet - the implementation is vendor specific.

The celebration background is very unlikely make it into anyone's implementation because it's unnecessary and busy.

This is one implementation, on Emojipedia:

emojipedia.org/drop-of-blood/

FGS. I can see why teenagers might use this- periods were about the only topic of conversation for about two years when I was 13 or 14. And it being the 80s, we managed to do it using actual words. Probably in the immediate aftermath of having spoken to someone else’s parent on the phone. And now they can’t do it on their own private phones without the help of pictures.

Just remembered I voted for this. Can't remember which image I chose though. What ever it was, it was rejected.

"Sadly, the design didn’t get accepted. But, unwilling to give up, we teamed up with NHS Blood and Transplantt_ and submitted a new proposal for a blood drop emoji (the runner up design in our public vote) to be included on keyboards everywhere – and we’re thrilled to announce that, with your amazing support, it’s been included in the February 2019 emoji release!"

plan-uk.org/act-for-girls/join-our-campaign-for-a-period-emoji

I'm very annoyed on their behalf though as a period is very different to just bleeding blood.

So Unicode, once again demonstrating the erasure if women.

Interesting that it's reported by Sky as "gender non specific" rather than "same sex couples"

My phone already has a gay couple and a lesbian couple emoji so this is something different.