Re: [gnome-women] Gnome Women Logo Contest

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 12/07/2005, at 8:30 PM, Runa Bhattacharjee wrote:

> I dont know if this would make much sense. In India, a feet is somehow
> considered a symbol of gender-based subjugation due to various  
> cultural
> practices for eg.women were not allowed to wear shoes or were made to
> sit near the foot of men etc. which somehow might lead to the second
> symbol to be a bit regressive in approach. perhaps this is a mental
> block on my part due to the stereotypes one is exposed to in India,  
> but
> imho, it might not go down well with the handful of ladies here in  
> India
> who are at present still fighting to find their due respect in the  
> Linux
> world. this is strictly my opinion though.

No, Runa, that's a very important point. If the Gnome symbol were not  
already a foot, I would want to exclude it, too, but you're quite  
right that we shouldn't _stress_ it if it's enforcing any cultural  
stereotypes of that kind.

Why a foot? (I wonder...)

<Clytie speculates: foot fetishists in the Gnome Foundation?>

It's a pity we can't just go for a nice, big, sassy letter G with the  
female symbol in the cross-bar.

Logos are difficult: Gnome to me symbolizes long sessions of editing,  
CVS and bug-reporting: how about someone banging their head on the  
keyboard? :D

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
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