Trans Activists are hijacking the Lobster Emoji till they add a Trans flag Emoji
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Considering I'm a liberal myself perhaps you should rethink what you took from my posts.
Oh Christ, like i said before, it's like the use of the rainbow for lgbt, that's it.
Why not just use the rainbow flag emoji?
Because that's not accurate to trans people necessarily
What are you even responding to dude
Doesn't the rainbow flag represent transgender people as well 🤔
The fucking e you keep putting in
I'm just hijacking e dude
I have no issue with using lobsters to represent trans people
You already apologized for getting weird and defensive over shit I never said so why are you doing it again
Do people just not bother reading threads before posting in them now? Cause this exact question has been answered multiple times.
I'm not gonna bother reading a thread about an emoji lol
But you're going to bother posting a question that has been repeatedly answered wasting everyone's time.
Ye
Prussian flag now.
Yeah, i apologised for characterising you with a point you didn't make. This is dumb. What are you taking e for?
You say that but here you are.
Please read threads before trying to start a new conversation inside them.
Well in my response to headhumpy I was using e to express that headhumpy has no idea what he's talking about.
Elsewhere I was using it to express that I think it's stupid to say that someone is "hijacking" a symbol that anyone can use for any reason.
I think the article is fucking stupid. That's really it. I don't care if trans people want to use a lobster to identify themselves. I don't think it's very obvious or catchy so I don't think it'll be very effective but really who gives a shit what emoji someone wants to use?
Basically I don't think people should be ridiculed for using an emoji to self identify but on the same vein I don't think it warrants such a hyperbolic title as "trans activists are HIJACKING the lobster emoji"
the moment you get a meme to be associated with a certain movement (as say, the nazis did with the swastika, a hitherto benign symbol) it can be said you have hijacked said meme
is this concept really foreign to you or are you trying to make sick zingers
all I took from your posts was "I like being obnoxiously contrarian to prove how intelligent I am, and I achieve this by doing stupid shit like adding e to every sentence"
Whatever will I do without esteemed user headhumpy's approval
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i see the new forum posting guidelines really are doing wonders for the improvement of debate quality in forums populated mainly by grown up, supposedly mature, people
Geel do you ever not act like a child? This is on par as "i identify as an attack helicopter" level of shitposting.
Geel has one good thing going in this thread, the sheer amount of E he's handing out will really help with transitioning.
Obviously this isn’t an issue caused by adding a trans flag (that hasn’t actually been added yet), but I have to disgaree with the last part - there’s room for neither. Maybe I’m alone in this, but I find the size of the emoji keyboard itself completely unwieldy on my iPhone, there’s simply way too much shit on there. The idea that you can simply keep adding symbols to be inclusive is just flawed from the get-go, and personally I find it much less usable than any of the ones on my preceding phones.
When you start being “inclusive” with your emojis, it’s really being exclusive - adding one symbol opens the question of why this or that hasn’t been added, because suddenly you’re treating one group preferentially. Personally I don’t really see the need to add the trans flag - it seems to me that it’s covered by the LGBT flag, mostly, and it (if that question wasn’t opened already by some other flag or emoji) opens up the question why the flags of Indian tribes or individual states or cities shouldn’t be added. Obviously adding the trans flag isn’t the issue (and it’s more justified than many other emojis) it’s the whole approach that is flawed.
I mean you say this, then my emoji keyboard had an faceclock emoji with different times on the front:
🕛🕧🕐🕜🕑🕝🕒🕞🕓🕟🕔🕠🕕🕡🕖🕢🕗🕣🕘🕤🕙🕥🕚🕦
What is this shit.
you know what I never thought I'd say this but golly I really miss the geel that would shoehorn his own steam emote
I’m not sure whether you’re agreeing with me, misunderstanding my post, or both here. If you think I’m saying that the trans flag has less merit than that clock face, you’re gonna have to read my post again.
This is stupid, they should just ditch their flag and use the lobster as their symbol instead.
Lobster > Bars of color
Oh, so you've found a way to feel superior to everyone
https://youtu.be/qfpg-YoQj60
I think you're fixating on the word hijacking a bit too much. It's just another way to say they using it, it's a headline, hyperbole is to be expected.
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