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It's you. Who's to say the pink icon wearing a dress is female? Who's to say the blue icon in pants is male? Isn't making that assumption sexist in itself?

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who's to say? please see ridiculous amount of references to bathrooms in other comments. next time i'll just submit something on bathrooms. i think it'd do great on hn.

Bathrooms are the most prevalent form of gender segregation on the planet, and they must have easily-communicated disambiguating symbols to work as such.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to consider them a prevailing example when discussing a thread about gender-identifying symbols.

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