Comments on: Is the Facebook Avatar a Dude?

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:51:47 +0000

"And those biologists say female is the default gender of an unfertilized embryo. How ironic!"

You mean the genetic material carried by a woman is exclusively female!? How ironic indeed!

On topic, I always assumed it was the silhouette of the dude that made that placeholder graphic. You're supposed to add your own pictures silly.

By: Mindclot

Mindclot — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:01:47 +0000

Ok well I see what your saying I have to say that if you don't like the option you can simple upload your down photo to your profile or use the female version provided. You got to realize in most countries women have thier hair long as men have them short. Its more of a western culture that has reverse the roles of gender, now a days men are wearing their hair longer, use make up, have earrings and seem to be going through the same physical and mental problems of mainstream medias views of what they should look like.

The world turns things change and life definitely isn't fair.

By: Justin 'PenaltyKillah' Lai

Justin 'PenaltyKillah' Lai — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:30:34 +0000

I guess Sociological Images was all fired up... but here's the deal:

Facebook's default avatar is also the male avatar used in the 'global connection' image on Facebook's sign-up page. A separate female avatar was also created for that purpose.

When a stick figure is drawn, with no hair or a little, it is immediately considered to be 'male' by, well, at least by a lot of people. Only when the hair flows down to shoulder-length and a skirt is added does the stick figure be considered as 'female'. (Bon Jovi stickmen will never be mistaken! lol)

No offence, Amanda, if that's your picture above. I think we can all agree that your hairdo isn't stereotypically feminine, but who cares about that? Definitely not me. ;)

(And here's an idea: why not the Facebook guys or gals (<- for political correctness) replace the default avatar with the female one from that sign-up image, just for a day? Let's see how many users will care about that. And those biologists say female is the default gender of an unfertilized embryo,,, (http://everything2.com/title/Default%2520sex) How ironic!

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:49:32 +0000

"You're boring, and you look like a man."

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:22:03 +0000

So what? Who cares? And yes, that guy in the photograph looks like the Facebook avatar.

By: Amanda Hess

Amanda Hess — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:29:39 +0000

Unfortunately I believe they are confined to sociological images.

By: Damian

Damian — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:57:38 +0000

Socialogical images need to find something more productive to argue about. :D

By: Rafael Marquez

Rafael Marquez — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:53:21 +0000

This was good! I never saw it as male or female or of any particular race, I saw it as a generic person icon. I'm glad I wasn't the only person who sees that avatar that way.