New Fembot Symbols

[darkbutflashy]

Ok, we now have a fembot symbol on the wiki. It's a transparent PNG suitable for bumpmapping it on anything.

EDIT: Dale, I don't think it's confusing so much. The standby symbol is widely known, thanks to the smartphones.

[dale coba]

Darkbutflashy,

Strictly speaking, you are right. I feel that the best symbols are interpreted instantly, or a half instant after that. I try to apply an eye clumsier than my own when I consider a new symbol. What I'm saying is, it's not as far from "idiot-proof" as I like an icon to be.

Perhaps my issues would be alleviated by changing the proportions:
- the thickness of the lines
- the ratio of the diameter of the circle to the height of the cross
- the height of the crossbar
- the length of the crossbar with respect to the diameter of the circle

I think there's a better balance to be tweaked out of that version.

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I wonder if there's any way we can introduce these to a wider audience, and see if they catch on.

- Dale Coba

[darkbutflashy]

And for the ones like me, who like their machine females being real people, I did another symbol for mechanized women in general. Again, a transparent PNG suitable for bumpmapping it on anything.

[Miss Pris]

So I know the original intention was not this, but oh, wow, would this make a good symbol for third wave (techno)feminism

- Dale Coba

Woman power!

Maybe this could be an offering to the media gods - "See, we're not misogynists. We believe in woman power, and women who want power buttons."

[dale coba]

Miss Pris, I'd offer it to the techno-feminists, but
Would it appeal to the non-TFs they wanted to court?

To outsiders, would this symbolic power suggest empowering political power,
or remind them of objectifying electricity used to control a device?

All true cyborg feminists would agree, empowerment comes from installing and owning your own batteries.

- Dale Coba

[darkbutflashy]

The power is in the mirror. In yourself.
Oh wait, that's actually standby.

[Miss Pris]

It's all about the batteries!