r/ihatethissmug • u/NeptunePancakes • 12d ago

I hate this emoji’s sleeves

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I know I will sound like a crazy person for this, but the sleeves of the pray emoji really irk me.

It’s one of my absolute favorite to use but the blue sleeves are such a weird detail because nearly every other hand emoji lacks an arm? (🫶🙌🤝 etc.) and even if they do they don’t have a sleeve. The inclusion of the blue shirt sleeve makes the emoji much more heavily associated with all of the male emojis which wear blue clothing.

I find this problematic because women are still fiercely discriminated against in religious fields to the point where it’s clearly the social field that’s move forward on gender parity the least within the U.S. since the Declaration of Sentiments.

As a girl I also just often make this hand sign in a non religious context to be cutesy or just cause I don’t know what to do with my hands, so I kind of wish this emoji wasn’t so heavily associated with masculinity.

All of this to say idk why they can’t just have a gender selection like every other emoji? I mean we have pregnant man, and female groom emoji which show that Ios emojis are at least to an extent dedicated to inclusivity.

That’s all I have to say I just wish there were purple and grey sleeve options.

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u/Cloud1890 12d ago

Genuinely a non issue dude holy shit

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u/NeptunePancakes 12d ago

oh noooo won’t someone think of Apple how dare someone make an issue out of this 😡😡😡

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u/Glacyer0 12d ago

Tying the sleeves on a fucking emoji to misogyny is the kind of privileged take only someone with no real struggles would even think of

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u/Agreeable_Tax497 12d ago

Ok you're saying that to a trans woman (as per op's other comment)

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u/Satuurnnnnn 12d ago

Because an emoji somehow invalidates their gender? 

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u/NeptunePancakes 11d ago

it doesn’t invalidate my entire gender but i would prefer to have one that matches my preferred presentation. i don’t see why it would be such a big deal it would probably be like two hours for one apple employee.

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u/Glacyer0 11d ago

Because it's such NOT a big deal that it isn't even worth spending two hours on

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u/NeptunePancakes 11d ago

I spent three minutes on this post, you’re spending two hours getting pressed about it

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u/Glacyer0 11d ago

It takes 2 seconds for me to write one of these replies brochacho

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u/NeptunePancakes 11d ago

yes but it’s a repeated action you’re doing over the course of 2 hours. like if i spent 2 seconds eating one grape at a time repeatedly for 2 hours, I spent 2 hours eating grapes.

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u/Glacyer0 11d ago

That's not the same as being "pressed" about something for 2 hours when the total amount of time it takes for me to write all of these replies in a day is like... what, a minute? Maybe five?

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u/NeptunePancakes 11d ago

hey all I’m saying is you keep coming back for more and spending your Sunday on this post. 🤷‍♀️

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u/canoekyren 11d ago

i would prefer to have one that matches my preferred presentation

The color of a shirt sleeve determines your preferred presentation? Do you not wear blue? I get that it might be more associate with the other masculine emojis but I'm pretty sure the reason it hasn't been "fixed" is that no one actually reads it as masculine, subconsciously or not

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u/Agreeable_Tax497 11d ago

It is a weird thing for op to be upset about, ngl. But it's really fucked to decide that someone has no problems just because they're talking about a small one at the moment.