More important than the word choice, the representative character of the book 
is male. Potential female readers will not see this book as for them because 
they don't identify with the icon. There should be a male/female team or an 
ambiguous space slug.

-Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Jadud" <jad...@gmail.com>
To: "John Clements" <cleme...@brinckerhoff.org>
Cc: "Racket mailing list" <users@racket-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 8:58:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [racket] sad user face?

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 20:48, John Clements <cleme...@brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
> I think this is becoming less common.

I've seen the same trend. And, if we're going to change perceptions of
computing, the language we use isn't a bad place to start---simply
because we *can* control it.

Cheers,
Matt
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