Comments on: Default Avatars: A Collection

By: snipe

snipe — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:18:00 +0000

Hipsters do.

By: slacktivist » One for normal people and another one for women

slacktivist » One for normal people and another one for women — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:14:03 +0000

[...] We all need someone else who can tell us, “Look behind you.”Jam also linked to Lisa Wade’s collection of default avatars at Sociological Images, which is really interesting and shows that the default-white-dude iconography isn’t just a [...]

By: Ms. Sunlight

Ms. Sunlight — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Nobody has hair like that Facebook avatar, with the possible exception of Tintin.

By: Jam Blair

Jam Blair — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:34:00 +0000

I am really annoyed that Disqus has only a male avatar! and I couldn’t figure out how to change it by logging in with google so I just switched to logging in with facebook

(notice I have a short haircut there; but still, the disqus av is totally a man, it’s not just about the hair)

By: Default Avatars: A Collection » Sociological Images | The Cyber Tribe

Default Avatars: A Collection » Sociological Images | The Cyber Tribe — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:49:31 +0000

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By: Rachel Keslensky - Last Res0rt

Rachel Keslensky - Last Res0rt — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:33:00 +0000

I use identicons as a default on my webcomic because unlike the other two pregens, I don't find the identicons ugly... This said, default icons just irk me in general.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:15:00 +0000

Ha ha! I just noticed that the comments are now being hosted by Disqus, which only provides this extremely dudely looking avatar as a default; so I searched for this old post just to laugh at the comments.

We all have lantern jaws and baseball caps now!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:15:00 +0000

Lisa, isn’t it ironic, this website has a MAN as an avatar by default..I am not impressed, why can you make them change it?

By: Default Avatars | Fe.male

Default Avatars | Fe.male — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:16:46 +0000

[...] social networking sites need to have a genderless default avatar – and quite a lot do (this post on the http://www.societypages.org website has a great discussion of this and gives lots of examples of [...]

By: Male as the Neutral Default » Sociological Images

Male as the Neutral Default » Sociological Images — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:01:49 +0000

[...] We’ve posted in the past about the way in which “male” is often taken to be the default or neutral category, with “female” a notable, marked, non-default one. For instance, “regular” t-shirts are men’s, Best Buy assumes customers are male, stick figures on signs are generally male, and default avatars tend to be male. [...]

By: Sociological Images Update (Apr. 2010) » Sociological Images

Sociological Images Update (Apr. 2010) » Sociological Images — Sat, 01 May 2010 16:17:18 +0000

[...] added a representation of “users” from WordPress that represented people as coming in differen… to our post featuring default [...]

By: Befunky | ¿Tienes avatar o dejas el que viene por defecto? | ceslava - Diseño y Formación

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:37:01 +0000

[...] este otro artículo se habla de la neutralidad de los avatares. Muchas redes tienen avatares por defecto sexo masculino [...]

By: Gendering Online Degree Programs » Sociological Images

Gendering Online Degree Programs » Sociological Images — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:02:03 +0000

[...] see our post on default avatars, Facebook’s “neutral” icons, a vintage cartoon about what classes women enjoy, [...]

By: Caduceus

Caduceus — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:36:18 +0000

I do not wear dresses and skirts nor do I ever put my hair in pigtails nor would I were it long enough. I always choose male avatars because 1) they’re not wearing dresses; 2) they don’t have pigtails 3) they usually have short hair, as I do 3) as we all know, it is advantageous in so many ways to appear to be a man online (to avoid sexism, to avoid misogyny, to get more traffic at your site {did you hear about the blogger who could not get traffic until she pretended to be a male blogger?} and a myriad of others reasons). I understand your point about the lack of female avatars, but seriously, this woman has less of a problem with male avatars than with overly-feminine avatars.

By: Milly

Milly — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:09:39 +0000

found this deliberately female avatar the other day and was amazed (and delighted) http://conference.archimuse.com/