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PatchGirl felt kind of neat to me! Back then, I pictured a young rebel pirate girl on a boat filled with adults (postman, pow, insomnia, ...) and she just look

• bluntfang 6y ago
  Sounds like a great way to integrate a strong female character into your product somehow! Why not use your idea as the logo?? The name is gendered, but the logo is very bland and ungendered. Seems inconsistent.
  • matsutsu 6y ago
    Yeah, that is the plan :-) I'll have some logo design soon!
• mrspeaker 6y ago
  I see your vision now, and I get everyone's "this is PC nitpicking gone mad!" reactions - but I think it's more subtle (of course it's totally up to you). "Girl" works great as a superhero name, but for tool for doing serious software development it feels a bit dated. "Girl" has a lot of historical connotations when applied to real actual work. It was a way to belittle the importance of people's skills and organizational value. When I first read "PatchGirl" I saw switch-board operators, not superheros - because it sounds exactly like a name that would get applied to women's work in the 1950s. The same is true for "boy": if you want to imply someone's not a man, you call them "boy"... but no one after the 1950s would do this in an office setting unless they were being antagonistic. Again, it's fine for a superhero! I think that's why some people will be against the name. Words are powerful, and have been used powerfully in the past. If you're not aware of the past (or not adversely affected by it) then it seems like a stupid nitpick - but to some there's a negative reaction to seeing history repeating.