#genderequality – There is a discussion under this hashtag on Facebook and Twitter that will probably never end.
It's about equality between men and women. And this hasn't gone unnoticed by the ever-creative minds at Facebook (just consider the earth-shattering change to the logo's character set just recently). So we put our heads together and came to one conclusion:
Source: Facebook Designer Blog
Notice what?
That's right, the two icons are different from each other. And we can tell you here how it came from the left to the right icon, or how it still does for some users (it is not yet activated everywhere).
At first it was like this, and we agree, that the lady in the left icon has a really bad hairstyle. Actually, she looks more like Darth Vader. What the author personally would find cool would be in his friends list. So from his point of view it could also be Luke and Anakin Skywalker. But Facebook certainly thought differently, it should represent a man and a woman.
What is important for a woman?
Bingo, the hairstyle. Very important! So hairstyles are first designed. It has to fit too. And look good. But not too dressed up. And it also has to fit the shoes you don’t have.
Source: Facebook Designer Blog
Search image: Which female icon is your new sweetheart?
So the woman has already been found. Short hair (good, but independent, not so wild and tousled). Next to it, the “old man” (not our choice of words, that’s how the designer writes it!) now looked “stiff and outdated”. The woman seems to know the author of the article.
The men's update
What can you do with men's hair? Not much, especially if it's just a silhouette. The selection was correspondingly thin (like men's hair from their mid-30s onwards, hehe):
Source: Facebook Designer Blog
This is not a choice. That's nothing ! Especially when you consider that the silhouette on the far left is only masquerading as a man, but is actually one of the women's silhouettes. Seriously, Facebook?
The silhouette on the far right, with a well-behaved parting, ultimately won. Because not many people have half Macklemore hairstyles like the gentleman in the middle. Or maybe yes? No idea. We are middle-aged, stiff men (for the most part), we hardly know anything about it.
Man. Woman. Which position?
Not what you think, you piglets! Now it's about how the two silhouettes are positioned. Side by side. And that seems to be very Really now. The designer writes in the blog that she is a woman (oh?) and went to a “women's college” (college only for women??) and therefore had problems with the old icon, since the woman there was literally in the shadow of the man's stand.
Gee, didn't you know! Every time we looked at this micro-mini-icon we were like, “Yeah, women’s oppression, supported by Facebook!” THIS is how it has to be!”. Not. Definitely not. To be honest, we never noticed.
In the end, the woman ended up “a little bit further ahead of the man” (we’re just quoting). But they are the same size. The silhouettes could have been made next to each other, but according to the designer it would always look like a two-headed mystical creature. But we would have liked to have seen it, it certainly looked cool.
It gets even better
The designer noticed that the group icon is just as typically patriarchal. Yes, that needs a change too. Very important. Otherwise, men win when it comes to equality (huh??).
Source: Facebook Designer Blog
The old icon shows two men, one at the front a man and a woman behind him. It doesn't work at all. Girl power! Now there is a woman in front and two men behind her. Maybe their bodyguards. Or lovers. Who knows for sure? By the way, if you look closely you will see that the woman in the foreground was also part of the men's selection. So three men? Or the one in front is transgender? Questions about questions.
What's left in the end
We don't know why this icon change was necessary. Maybe the designers were bored. Maybe Facebook also wants to jump on this terribly annoying gender equality bandwagon. If the latter, then: Kinners, you screwed up! Because that is not equality. The woman was simply put before the man. This is feminism, not equality. Namely unhealthy feminism. Not the one who really for equality in all areas. Very important distinction!
Facebook will never be the same. Our world, our entire thinking, no, our universe will now change completely with the changes to the logo and those icons. Really now!
Or maybe no one cares.
Author: Ralf, mimikama.org
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