firecat: damiel from wings of desire tasting blood on his fingers. text "i has a flavor!" (Default)
firecat (attention machine in need of calibration) ([personal profile] firecat) wrote2009-04-24 02:48 pm
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Aww!

The little user icon is cute! Sort of like a standing stone with a head. Or an androgynous Venus of Willendorf. [personal profile] firecat
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[personal profile] ana_thema 2009-05-06 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
I think the website "Sociological Images" was having a discussion about this very topic the other day, how so many "neutral" icons are white, and in many cases, also depict men.
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[personal profile] firecat 2009-05-06 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Yep:

http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/05/04/default-avatars-a-collection/

http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/04/15/who-is-facebook/

Over on my FB account I made a rainbow version of the FB avatar. It still looked male though.
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