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Culture isn't going to lead to women magically sprouting beards. It may make the small percentage of women with facial hair not shave it off, but most women of

Culture isn't going to lead to women magically sprouting beards. It may make the small percentage of women with facial hair not shave it off, but most women of whatever culture you're talking about(Sikh I presume) aren't going to have a beard because they can't grow one in the first place. Somewhat related, but this thread made me look into it - and it seems a huge oversight that there isn't a "pregnant man" emoji - only pregnant woman. Probably all unicode emojis accepted with a certain gender variant should just include the other major gender variant as well. I can't really think of something that one gender can do that another gender can't do, if you allow that people can change their gender at will. https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-woman/ https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-woman/ https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-man/ https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-man/ (404 error)

dagmx 6y ago
Culture won't lead to them actively growing beards, but it will lead to them passively allowing it to grow. This applies to men and women equally. Many men struggle to grow a beard or shave it off, so we have beardless male emojis. So men have the option. Women too can physically grow beards, even if it's only a few. There's nothing wrong with giving them the option of a bearded emoji.
elil17 6y ago
7% of women naturally grow facial hair. It's not really a "small percentage." https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/why-women-grow-facial-hair/ https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/why-women-grow-facia...
- oh_sigh 6y ago
  In that "naturally growing" number are women who suffer from PCOS or other hormonal disorders. So the number is smaller than 7% for women that naturally grow hair absent some kind of disorder. And of those that remain, many grow hair but it would not be classifiable as a beard. So I would stand by my statement that this only affects a small percentage of women.

dagmx 6y ago

Culture won't lead to them actively growing beards, but it will lead to them passively allowing it to grow. This applies to men and women equally. Many men struggle to grow a beard or shave it off, so we have beardless male emojis. So men have the option. Women too can physically grow beards, even if it's only a few. There's nothing wrong with giving them the option of a bearded emoji.

elil17 6y ago

7% of women naturally grow facial hair. It's not really a "small percentage." https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/why-women-grow-facial-hair/ https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/why-women-grow-facia...

oh_sigh 6y ago
In that "naturally growing" number are women who suffer from PCOS or other hormonal disorders. So the number is smaller than 7% for women that naturally grow hair absent some kind of disorder. And of those that remain, many grow hair but it would not be classifiable as a beard. So I would stand by my statement that this only affects a small percentage of women.