Kindle app has changed to an image of a boy reading

[Njordsgrrrl]

It's very sweet and all but I'm a former primary school teacher and it seems to me it's wrong making a male the default yet again. (And please be kind I've been following this board for years and you've been great altogether)

Really? Come on. Grow up.

Oh ffs

Honestly do people go hunting for things to be offended about

Seriously!

Well ...in short, I just wouldn’t worry about it,

In long:

Boys tend to read less than girls
Reading promotes empathy/understanding of others
So more boys reading is a good thing for feminism!

And how do you know it's a boy?

What was it before

well you are the one assuming that short hair and trousers is a boy.

I thought it looked more like a girl with short hair actually

Alright random child

But what was it before...was it a tree?

Just looked on my old app and it still appears to be someone with short hair and trousers under a tree

It doesnt look like they have changed it

To be honest op im torn, i can see your point regarding a 'male' figure but boys are being targeted for reading schemes soooo....i dunno

It's been a silhouetted humanoid, of undetermined gender and age, reading under a tree for years.

I don't have a physical Kindle but I do have Kindle for PC on my computer. The old logo was a child with short hair reading a book under a tree and facing left. The new logo is a child with short hair reading a book under a tree and facing right. The new image is more detailed and aesthetically pleasing, but it's essentially the same as the old one.

Wrong? Really? Could be a child or a young person of either sex. There's no way to tell really is there?

njords

Is it the 'male' thing or the fact that you thought it had changed thats more annoying

Njordsgrrrl

Maybe they’re trying to encourage boys to read.

Don’t be put off the board, if you get some robust replies!

I think it's pretty generic really - kid with short hair reading a book - but if it was a boy, that would actually be good, boys need to be encouraged to read more from what I understand (not my eldest... stopping him reading is more the problem).

Having a figure that could be interpreted as male or female is about as good as its going to get I reckon.

Thanks for the replies. True, the figure isn't necessarily male and I agree encouraging boys reading is a good thing. Should've thought it through! It just annoyed me because it made me think of a thread on here once. Search Google images for 'human' and see what you get sort of thing.

njord

I appreciate that we cant tell the sex of the figure but a figure with long hair in our country is usually a girl and short is usually a boy

A skirt is used to donate a girl and trousers a boy

Wrong and stereotypical but if you showed that picture to 100 people and made them pick one or the other i reckon most would say boy

1. I do agree that it looks like a boy
2. I don't think it really matters.
3. Following on from the above, there are bigger issues to worry about.

Yeah it is pretty trivial. Male violence and the trans thing in particular. At least in this country. I got an awfully condescending reply from my (Tory) MP ages ago when I wrote to him about the gender bill

Really Op? Quite frankly they could have chosen a boy or a girl and they chose a boy/person with short hair. 50:50 chance. And its actually going against stereotypes not with them.

I really do despair that people spend time trying to find fault with this sort of thing.

njord

It doesn't matter if some people find it trivial

It all adds up to the drip drip drip of male as default