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Everyone be using the eggplant emoji as a penis euphemism, I have two thoughts on this ... (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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over time this might affect our collective consciousness in regards to the purpose & function of the eggplant; and
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] 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 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] 16 points 6 months ago (3 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 6 months ago (1 children)

I concur 🍑😉

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Won't you look at that, a winking asshole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's what it meant back in the 90s. I was initially confused when people started using the emoji to mean butt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The peach emoji was added in Unicode 6.0 ... which came out in 2010. How were you using it in the 1990s?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not talking about emoji. I'm talking about, well, talk. Words.

[–] Willy 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

and songs!