I wonder if doing this in Unicode was a huge mistake.<p>Reading this article seems to me we are pulling the thread of a sweater, and getting caught in an unsolvable intersection of intersectionalist social issues (pun intended!). FYI I'm not taking sides other than to say we live in an <i>actually</i> diverse world and people have different social mores wether we like them or not, this talk will never end.<p>Maybe we should just have allowed 'svg' images into text, and you pick whatever you want to send to that person, and they see what you sent and that's that.<p>Then anyone can do anything, publicly, privately, whatever.<p>It's already getting hard with Emojis getting into text and passwords, it's making it just ugly.<p>Everyone could then 'do their own' thing and that's it.<p>We also could be past the peak of this emoji trend, they are here to stay in some ways, but I don't think the specificity is really that-that important. We just don't use most of these characters very often at all.