The eyes have it
Thirteen-year-old Lowri Moore is campaigning for better representation for four-eyed gits, firstly in film and now in emojis. She's urging the Unicode Consortium to include options for adding spectacles to the plethora of shit that we have to wade through already.
She is launching her latest campaign to coincide with World Sight Day. "Teenagers [who wear glasses] don't really feel represented," Lowri said. "Not positively anyway. If it's representation then it's the nerd [emoji] and that's not who we are."
What next for emoji representation? Missing limbs? Lazy eye? Buck teeth, which are also only seen in the nerd emoji?
Anyway, all that representation whinging aside, spectacles are colloquially known as glasses because, back in the mists of time, they were made of glass, innit? They're now made of plastic though. So let's get it right, both Lowri and droid: spectacles—specs or spex, if three syllables are too much for you—or plastics…if you really must.
Not glasses. That's old skool!
(nerd)
I'm a part-time four-eyed git.