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In her experience, if a female client does make a mistake, it’s making themselves too vulnerable too soon. “Those are massive red flags, as vulnerability is great but with boundaries, right? They may tell you their life story, and with a lot of drama tied to it. And they’re just dumping it on you.”
In the same way that men then resort to emojis when they realize they’ve been too forward, Leadingham says that women will also express their embarrassment in the easiest way possible and rely on images to convey how they feel, rather than typing it out. In this way, emojis can be a crutch that helps avoid further displays of vulnerability, or at least soften them. She says common emojis women will use if they feel like they’ve said too much include the blushing face (), the zippered mouth (), and the sad downtrodden one () – especially if it’s led to them being ghosted.