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      • motherfucker [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        The emoji is called :body-without-sex-organs:. It is a troll doll with the Kabbalah Sefirot superimposed over top of it.

        The phrase “body without organs” is a phrase used by Deleuze and Guattari to describe how the organization of systems imposes restrictions on them. Our freedom is at its highest when our organs are working properly, but their continued operation requires them to signal our attention in ways that limits our actions and sometimes induces automatic responses. So the focus on sex organs implies a focus on the restrictions which sex organs impose on us.

        The Sefirot is an outline of how the divine infinite reveals itself and creates the many realms, both physical and spiritual. Imposing it over a body draws the connection between our material existence and our spiritual essence.

        And troll dolls are children’s’ toys.

        So the connection between the body and spirit of this kids’ toy is restricted by its sex organs? I think I may have accidentally made this emoji trans.

        In reality, someone probably put a spiritual looking symbol over a kids’ toy and deep fried it a little bit as a gag. Then someone with a passing familiarity with Deleuze free associated the name to make it more surreal. I dunno, it’s just my favorite. For what it’s worth, statistically, the person who names that emoji was trans, so vivian-shrug