what I want (well, one of many things)

[kaigou]

Recently I saw a news bit about an upcoming convention for, I think it was, women game-writers. There was, of course, the inevitable bit about how women don't need their own gaming convention, and leaving out the menz, and the usual. (Uh, maybe it was comics? Great, my mind's going and it's barely only 1pm.) I'm all for safe space, but now I want one in my industry. Someplace where I could post this, and know I'm talking to people who won't act like I'm seeing things, or practically pat me on the head with the patronizing, or tell me it's not a big deal (or that it doesn't bother them so naturally it shouldn't bother me) and I should get over it, or whatever. But since I can't find that locally, it's all y'all instead who get to share my pain. I mean, this shit really is insidious.



Note the icon titles. GEE, THANKS FOR CLEARING THAT UP FOR ME.

Comments

[nagasvoice]

Well, no STEREOTYPING there, huh?
(Somehow, now I feel like going off to AO3 and reading extremely, extremely blatant PWP slashy fic. Go figure).
I suggest global climate instability will deal with all of it. What? A climate like Venus, you don't even have roaches left.

[kaigou]

Yeah, no stereotyping in this or any of a hundred other icon sets. I've actually started assessing icon sets based on several different criteria, and one of them is definitely the options for users. Not that a set should have a greater variety, although I appreciate the ones that do have more than just white women with a flip wearing pink and white men with business cut wearing a suit, but let's face it, "user" is a generic label. Give me a simple dark-colored circle for the head and a half-circle for the shoulders and call it a day. It's not a freaking avatar; it doesn't need to be personalized.

(And if it were an avatar, there's no way I'd settle for only being 16px tall. Don't freaking miniaturize my internet representation!)