> 4. Using a default male avatar How do you decide if an avatar is male? Jeans and T-shirts do not a male make in this day and age. I am not quite certain how y

> 4. Using a default male avatar How do you decide if an avatar is male? Jeans and T-shirts do not a male make in this day and age. I am not quite certain how you would distinguish between a non-gendered and gendered avatar. If you can't tell the difference, then there is no problem. Obviously that is not the concern here. The human brain has evolved for millions of years the ability to distinguish gender and understand iconography. Maybe you should actually think about the problem before dismissing it with a straw-man. > 5. Describing software or algorithms as “sexy”, “hot”, etc. According to the author, this creates a "college frat-boy environment". I would argue that outlawing normal adult words like "sexy" and "hot" creates more of an infantilized classroom environment where you are essentially saying "Hey, don't say that bad word in front of the girls, or you'll get punished." Using "sexy" to refer to a well-designed, sleek new website is, in my opinion, perfectly reasonable. It's called professionalism. Do you know what that word means? > 10. Using dark UI patterns. This is a problem for all users. I don't see why this should disproportionately drive women off. If it is, the solution lies in more privacy education and outreach, not bashing people who write the software. This is addressed in the article. If you force people to use their real names and women are already disproportionately the target of privacy violations, then it does more damage to women than to men to have such a UI. If someone is being heckled or stalked and they can't shut that down efficiently, then they will stop using your service.