https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41484
--- Comment #24 from Brandon Harris <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #4) > How do you make a "female" icon anyway, short of giving it breasts? Long > hair? > Tell that to Brandon and Sumana! Are you suggesting that I could be mistaken for a woman? ;) Speaking on this issue, I think we should avoid any kind of gender cues in the icon. The concept of "gender" is intensely personal, mercurial, and ephemeral. This bug actually points to a larger issue that we have within the software itself (which is that gender is a binary switch, rather than something that accommodates individuals who identify as "genderqueer"). (And yes, I know that namespace translations for user pages based on gender is a whole other ball of wax, and I can't hope to think we'll ever solve for gender-identification problems that are fundamental to a language itself). As far as the icon itself goes, I would prefer that we also would move towards an image that is also racially neutral (thus, Munaf's grey icon is probably the best choice). That said, I still want to get rid of the icon entirely. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
