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by a1371 1215 days ago
Look up proposal L2/20-190. They provide a number of good reasons for pregnant man. To summarize:

- It avoids gender stereotyping of men in Parenthood.

- couples say "we are pregnant". The term pregnant is culturally used for men too as their search shows.

- the emoji is not just for pregnancy, it is also for feeling bloated, full, and hungry.

I sometimes used this emoji for saying that I'm expecting something. My partner didn't like it.

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Except all of those things is NOT what the actual emoji conveys.
Ooh you are going to be so mad when you find out people use to talk about so something other than the purple vegetable...
The problem is that the definition of the emoji says Pregnant Man Emoji.

So using it for anything other than that defeats accessibility for visually impaired people.

Also, 'we are pregnant' is weird, being pregnant is the act of developing offspring within the body.

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