First, sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. I was between society/politics/technology. But since politics means “related to the city” I thought this would be a good place to post this.
It’s a reminder of the symbolic design change in Facebook (2015) from Man in front to Woman in front on the Friends category and Groups category.
Also a minor change on the globe icon.
And then next year it came out they were giving everyone’s data to Cambridge Analytics, so they pulled a Phillip-Morris and renamed the company Meta hoping you’d forget their scandals.
But at least they got a girl icon.
Yup. I’m thinking a whole lot of self-satisfied small actions like this happened and a lot of butthurt fragile males saw this kind of stupid stuff - centering females instead of males in icons - and thought, “oh yeah? watch this!” - and then gleefully voted for the very worst conservative they could find as revenge. For the moment, that’s Donvict.
Fast forward ten years and women don’t have bodily autonomy any more and married women are in danger of having their vote taken away. And I guess at least we’ll have female-centered icons for the moment - at least until Donvict (or “JD” after him) gets around to issuing an EO and companies like Meta bend the knee…
Don’t forget about Blackwater changing its name like half a dozen times lmao
(now Constellis)