A so-called “pregnant man” emoji and “pregnant person” emoji are coming to Apple iPhones with its latest update, iOS 15.4.
Audrey Conklin for FOXBusiness:
The pregnant emoji aren’t new for some, since they arrived as part of an update that emoji-encyclopedia Emojipedia announced in September 2021. However, Apple’s version of the emoji were released Thursday as part of iOS 15.4 beta — a voluntary system update iPhone users can choose to install.
The push to include everyone in pregnancy has erupted in controversy, with some cultural commentators arguing that the effort to make the biologically specific phenomenon all-inclusive erases factors that make women distinctive from men and even dehumanizes women.
To voice concerns with Apple: (408) 996–1010.
According to health website Healthline.com, people who were born biologically female but identify as men are transgender men who can give birth because they have the reproductive organs necessary to do so — especially those who do not take or have stopped taking testosterone. The same goes for those who identify as non-binary.
MacDailyNews Take: Also already available are unicorn, dragon, and mermaid emoji.
It is, though, perfect for those “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing” / “I just drank so much beer” texts.
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Getting close to selling my APPLE stock.
Thank you! Apple needs to buy stocks back from someone and you’ll be helping my Apple stock to go up.
Actually, anyone selling stock pushes the price down. Good snark, though. You go!
The the dumb emoji adversely affects you how? Maybe you could show us where it hurts. Bottom line, “snowflake”: It doesn’t affect you in the slightest. I does not matter.
Just Apple virtue signaling. Giving legitimacy to the lunacy unleashed in our society.
Apple is always determined to be the leader. Now, in the Total Stupidity category, there is Apple. Leading.
Good. A new “I’m happy I ate too much” emoji
EXACTLY!!!
I mean, I know I’ll be using that on Thanksgiving.
Effing nutty.
Feel free to identify as anything and demand respect…regardless of any connection to real truth.
Only a bigot (or whatever fits here) would disagree?
I respect all people and will call people by any pronouns they wish. But don’s piss on my leg and tell me that it’s raining. I can identify as a unicorn, but it doesn’t mean I’m a unicorn. And I can’t go around demanding that everyone call me a unicorn.
Isn’t there already a mental illness emoji?
Yesterday, a number of Instagram-posting-like-juveniles were riled when some were critical of AAPL and called out the dissenters as “Apple Haters.” (These types–mostly liberal–often “settle” disagreements with intolerant and inflexible name-calling so often associated today with race, science and gender).
Will you declare the same now as some are critical of this “believing it will make it true” garbage?
Yes, because conservatives and Republicans NEVER resort to name-calling.
Oh please, gimme a break.
(See no name calling here!)
Once again your leftist leanings cloud your judgement. No one said conservatives never resort to name calling.
Vinnie’s point was juvenile leftists cannot argue facts, because they have NONE and immediately resort to name calling, and LOSE the argument.
They employ this tactic more than 90% of the time and conservatives are not in their league, no contest.
There, I fixed it for you…
Tim Cook, Steve’s worst mistake
Apple is a left wing company, almost all tech is. Accept that they’ll do silly things like this – mostly to appease the adamantly woke part of their work force and the orgs that go around to companies pushing it.
Elon Musk is left-wing? Peter Thiel? Larry Ellison?
The rank and file in tech may lean to the left, but the people at the top making the real money tend to be far more conservative (as is the case with most industries).
Other right-leaning tech titans include Scott McNealy (Sun Microsystems), Michael Dell, Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman, Intel’s Brian Krzanich, and others.
This article is out of date, but might prove interesting reading:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/10/silicon-valley-right-wing-donald-trump-peter-thiel
How Peter Thiel be right wing? I thought he was gay! What he heck?
Maybe I should buy my next computer from Dell. I’m sick of all the B.S. from Apple’s left-wing nuttiness!
ABSOLUTELY NOT, Apple apologist. I don’t have to accept when Apple under SJW Cook purposely pushes Left Wing woke CRAP like this that is utterly wrong and ridiculous…
Funny….yesterday when MDN reported on Apple’s greatest quarter ever, there were very few comments.
Now, after a silly article about emojis (which, by the way, did NOT originate with Apple), all the usual worms and trolls come crawling out of the woodwork.
Sad….
Funny, Mr. Skellum…I don’t believe you posted yesterday, but today you did.
Re ” the silly article about emojis”…Can I call you Mr. Pot? I’m asking for Mr Kettle.
Mr Kettle doesn’t have a handle on things… and he ends up boiling over in leftist drivel. Yuck!
In case you didn’t understand, I was referring to the people (if I may dignify them by calling them that) who regularly call for Tim Cook to be fired and make other snide and disparaging remarks at the slightest provocation.
I didn’t feel the need to do the opposite and applaud Apple and Tim Cook yesterday, hence my lack of posts, but I will do so now:
Well done Apple!!
Well done Tim Cook!!
He needs to be replaced because all he is a hollow shell sitting first class in the iPhone gravy train. Beancounter money is not everything…
Well that’s because articles that do not contain trigger words like ‘pregnant’ ‘abortion’ ‘fraud’ ‘democracy’ ‘voting rights’ ‘guns’ etc ad nauseum, don’t give them a testosterone high to mitigate their miserable world view.
Poor things.
I am so going to use this when in distress from over eating, or in dire need to take a dump. 😉
Totally Pathetic and Insulting!!!
When Apple launched the “Think Different” campaign, the idea of the crazy ones changing the world and pushing it forward meant something other than thrusting one’s own moral bankruptcy on others.
If this isn’t a form of “misinformation”, I don’t know what is!
I just wonder how much a a need there was for this particular type of expression… don’t we already have WAY to many “normal” emojis? Can’t find what I’m looking for anyways
All the angst over new emojis, and bitching about how “left-wing” Apple is. Too bad those posters are simply too stupid to realize Apple isn’t in charge of what emojis represent: that’s the function of the Unicode Consortium, who create new emojis not based on radical leftist thought, but based on submissions from folks from all over the world.
But go ahead, blame Tim Cook. Just don’t be surprised when the same “moral bankruptcy” shows up on Android devices, PCs and every other connected device in the world.
https://home.unicode.org
In case you’re wondering which of the more than 3,000 emojis are the most popular, the Unicode Consortium has lists: https://home.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-frequency/
My guess is “Pregnant Guy” will NOT be one of the top emojis for 2022. So all yer bitching is probably unnecessary.
Not really sure why anyone who isn’t directly affected by the availability of these emojis would actually care one way or the other.
I think it’s a nice nod to the only species known where a male gets pregnant and delivers babies. Of course, don’t rely on the human species to achieve such a marvel, their only real claim to fame is being the only species that produces non-biodegradable materials that are toxic to all known life forms.
Insanity rules.
Only women have babies. It’s called science, which the “I foLlOw the SCieNce” crowd ignores when it goes against their crazy beliefs. Apple is supporting mental illness. It should be ashamed for doing so. People don’t need to be encourage in their delusions – they need help. The insane are making decisions.
Gender is not an identity. It’s biology. Effing nonsense.
The pregnant man emoji depicts a guy with a ‘food baby’. It’s a joke about overeating.
Not everything heralds the downfall of western civilization, folks!
OMG – a rational response!!!
What are you doing posting here?
boomerville in here lol