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I wonder who's actually going to use the breastfeeding emoji.

• cwbrandsma 9y ago
  Nursing mothers and family of nursing mothers.
• s_kilk 9y ago
  I wonder if Unicode will eventually just contain every conceivable image that anyone would ever want to reference.
  • d6e 9y ago
    Yeah... I feel like emojis were a mistake.
    • kec 9y ago
      emoji weren't a mistake (given unicode's goal of being able to represent all possible written text), expanding them beyond the original set was.
• pje 9y ago
  A huge number of people have children during their lifetime (89% according to one quora answer [0]), and since babies require daily breastfeeding multiple times a day for at least six months, that's a lot of instances of people needing to talk about breastfeeding. [0]: https://www.quora.com/Children-What-percentage-of-people-become-parents/answer/Anshul-Ranjan-1 https://www.quora.com/Children-What-percentage-of-people-bec...
  • ErikVandeWater 9y ago
    My point is emojis help us visualize things - try to give us an actual image instead of a word. But I imagine lots of people don't in particular want other people to visualize them breastfeeding.
    • rabbyte 9y ago
      lots of people don't want others to visualize them dancing but the dancing emoji just isn't for them.