The Eggplant Emoji Is The Next Frontline Of Online Harassment

[mauricio]

https://web.archive.org/web/20150930232240/http://www.vocativ.com/culture/society/the-eggplant-emoji-is-the-next-frontline-of-online-harassment/

So i'm not sure if this should go here or in the jokes subforum?

[mauricio]

It may seem silly to point at cartoon textspeak as the beginning of a problem[..]

No, it not only seems that way, it is...

and so has our ability to consent to what is sent to us.

Cyber rape due to unconsensual emoji messaging is real guys!

[mauricio]

holy shit look at that degenerate son of a bitch cyber raping people.

[Hakurei Reimu]

Plasma-chan hates eggplants!

[Hijiri Byakuren]

[stromboli]

http://allrecipes.com/recipes/1084/fruits-and-vegetables/vegetables/eggplant/

[TomFoolery]

What's wrong with eggplants? If I encountered a man with a penis that looked like an eggplant, I wouldn't be offended, I would be sorry for him.

I'm too old for this shit. Better than just straight up dick pics I guess.

[stromboli]

Flour, corn meal, egg batter, frying pan- you're done. Purple phallic symbol as a side dish.

[Munch]

poor eggplant wizard, all he wants to do is get on stage and dance.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

St. George of the Carlin once demanded to know "where is all the purple food?"

[Hydra009]

Yemeni child-bride and FGM victim bemoans the rampant sexism of the western world as exemplified by the eggplant emoji.

[drunkenshoe]

This is funny. I'm curious if the colour also has additional effect on the shape being offensive. You know, purple,lol. 

[mauricio]

This is funny. I'm curious if the colour also has additional effect on the shape being offensive. You know, purple,lol. 

pretty sure this trend started in japan and there  purple= tentacle rape

[TomFoolery]

Yemeni child-bride and FGM victim bemoans the rampant sexism of the western world as exemplified by the eggplant emoji.

I guess I mostly agree with the sentiment and feel like there are definitely many countries in the world where women have it worse. I saw it firsthand in Afghanistan.

Yet some part of me has never liked the idea of trying to prove whose life is worse. If there even is a winner, the winner just gets to claim they have the worst life. Yay.

I don't think anyone can claim things like child marriage and female genital mutilation and lack of suffrage and maternity care for women in the third world isn't bad. But to pretend like sexism in Western countries isn't an issue because much worse stuff happens in Yemen or the DCR definitely deserves one of these:


Don't take it as though I'm suggesting women in the West have it worse, but really, the two situations can't be compared. And if I'm supposed to hold my entire life up to the lens of life in the third world, I'm going to come away looking like an entitled bitch no matter what I do. Like I shouldn't be sad if my grandma dies because children in Syria lost their entire families to Civil War. Or I can't feel stressed about midterm exams because it doesn't compare to the stress of people in South Carolina who have lost everything they have to flooding. Or I shouldn't find social attitudes towards women disappointing because... see above.

Also don't take it as though I think the eggplant thing is actually offensive and just another way of "keeping women down." The eggplant thing is ridiculous. Some people want to be offended, some people feed on sensationalism, and some people love offense baiting. If the eggplant is anything, it's a symbol of trollism.

[mauricio]

I guess I mostly agree with the sentiment and feel like there are definitely many countries in the world where women have it worse. I saw it firsthand in Afghanistan.

Yet some part of me has never liked the idea of trying to prove whose life is worse. If there even is a winner, the winner just gets to claim they have the worst life. Yay.

I don't think anyone can claim things like child marriage and female genital mutilation and lack of suffrage and maternity care for women in the third world isn't bad. But to pretend like sexism in Western countries isn't an issue because much worse stuff happens in Yemen or the DCR definitely deserves one of these:


Don't take it as though I'm suggesting women in the West have it worse, but really, the two situations can't be compared. And if I'm supposed to hold my entire life up to the lens of life in the third world, I'm going to come away looking like an entitled bitch no matter what I do. Like I shouldn't be sad if my grandma dies because children in Syria lost their entire families to Civil War. Or I can't feel stressed about midterm exams because it doesn't compare to the stress of people in South Carolina who have lost everything they have to flooding. Or I shouldn't find social attitudes towards women disappointing because... see above.

Also don't take it as though I think the eggplant thing is actually offensive and just another way of "keeping women down." The eggplant thing is ridiculous. Some people want to be offended, some people feed on sensationalism, and some people love offense baiting. If the eggplant is anything, it's a symbol of trollism.

imo is not about comparing who has it worse, because i also oppose the whole ''hey woman have it worse in rape, but men get more raped in jail and commit suicide more often'' or ''hey you may be gay but you are white you do not know what is to be truly oppresed!!111" I call that the oppression Olympics the one who combines the most marginalized traits gets the most oppression points and you can't argue with his opinions cause it means you are ''denying the lived experience of oppressed minorities"

I think it is about keeping a realistic perspective and realizing that the hyperbolic rhetoric of dehumanization and oppression that is expressed by a privileged high class women with a big platform complaining at the UN about people calling her a liar and that she sucks on the internet and asking for actions to stop this.

Is a fucking joke.