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 ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users