2018-01-11 6:35 GMT+01:00 Pierpaolo Bernardi via Unicode < [email protected]>:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 4:44 AM, jillian mestel via Unicode > <[email protected]> wrote: > > To whom it may concern, > > I was very disappointed to learn that there are no emojis of portraying > a dominant left hand. I feel this is rude, and is setting this group of > people apart, and disregarding them. There are emojis of all different > races of right dominant hands, yet not left dominant hands are portrayed. I > hope this can be fixed, and that leftys and rightys can be equals. > > ✍🏻✍🏼✍🏿✍🏾✍🏽 > > Then people with no hands will be discriminated. Do you suggest those unable to use their hands should have their emojis with their right or left foot holding the pen ? Or with the pen in their mouth ? Or with their eyes followed by a camera and blinking to select letters/words to compose on a display ? or using seech-to-text processors ? There are lot of different handicaps with different solutions, and the first one is severe visual deficiency (or blindness), and severe intellectual deficiencies (from their birth, or after health accidents), where people can't read or distinguish the emojis or understand their differences, and will need assitance by an equipement or a third party. Think about the symbol for wheelchair: do you want to distinguish a "left-hand" and "right-hand" version (by mirroring), or a motorized version for those that can't push it with their hands, or a wheelbed for those that can't sit down ? These omissions in existing emojis are not "rude" or "discriminatory", they are just not requested for actual use ; what is really "rude" is the experienced handicaps, and what is "discriminatory" is how we accept (or refuse) to adapt our social life, common equipement and laws, to improve the coexistence of people with and without these deficiencies.
