Wowwww Mastodon custom emoji misgendering me 🤷‍♀️

[mcc@mastodon.social]

Wowwww Mastodon custom emoji misgendering me 🤷‍♀️

[mayintoronto@beige.party]

@mcc 🤷🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

[mayintoronto@beige.party]

@mcc ruuuude.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

(The actual problem was that I accidentally used the generic "shrugging person" emoji instead of the explicit "shrugging woman" emoji, and Windows 10 made a different decision from the Mastodon emoji set about default genders¹. Meaning there's not actually a problem except that emoji are somehow a form of ideogram which is subjective depending on who is viewing it.)

¹ https://magicalpessimism.bandcamp.com/track/when-its-over-ft-no-rome

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@mayintoronto "you can tell i'm a woman because i'm wearing a purple shirt"

[nev@status.nevillepark.ca]

@mcc so is gender, really

[mayintoronto@beige.party]

@mcc purple =boobs

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@mayintoronto *looking down* ok so this shirt is green but i actually have one that's exactly the same but purple brb

[jplebreton@mastodon.social]

@mcc orange is the non-gendered / nb person shirt color in a lot of emoji sets, that might just be the default there? def not something i'd want software to override though if someone is deliberately saying binary!

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@jplebreton https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/116049687815641210

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@noiob Shrugging is gendered?? :O

[eramdam@social.erambert.me]

@mcc @noiob there are a couple of emoji like that yeah