Edit: As @bdonvr@thelemmy.club points out below
Are telling me they fired the previous mascot to hire a gender minority? Smh
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does this mean nonbinary ~~people~~ foxes/red pandas have fire bending?
The old one was also non-binary. Prove me wrong.
(Honestly, I just don't care. Load the web page and render some JavaScript already)
If you've found a non-binary one then I'd love to see what you're running it on.
It's a fox. I like the fox.
What if.... hear me out.... what if we remove the focus on gender altogether? What if we stop engendering things that don't have genders? Like logos... and behavioral attributes...
It's a mascot, not a logo. So it having a gender isn't strange.
Also, since its pronouns are (quoting the announcement blog post) "he/him, they/them, she/her, and it" that is very open and not rather post-gender, in my opinion. The focus in the announcement is not on thee mascot's gender in fact.
Since Mozilla actually didn’t and the post is based on a lie, I’ll say congratulations, your reaction is almost certainly what they were hoping for
You don't think people childishly over-anthropomorphize a lot these days? Cause I do, and that's what my comment was about.
Any and all other identities as well. It’s a never ending ad nauseam non evidence based, non measurable and inconclusive debate.
Like we're in The Beasts' castle. Sometimes a candleholder is just a candleholder.
By the way this is NOT a new Firefox logo. It's just the fox mascot drawing that may be used in other parts of the UI like the welcome screen after a new install, or on social media.
The actual logo remains unchanged.
On top of that nowhere in the announcement are the supposed pronouns mentioned: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/meet-kit/
Actually the whole thing may be bullshit. Literally the only Mozilla reference I can find to Kit's pronouns is a statement given to like one or two blogs, and it says that any pronoun is acceptable.
Kit (he/she/they/them/it) is the user’s constant companion. Wherever they choose to roam, Kit will accompany and guide them with clever, playful encouragement and support — giving the user the confidence to run free.
That's attributed to Mozilla here: https://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-has-killed-its-old-mascot-heres-what-the-new-cute-one-looks-like/
All other references seem to be chuds on X claiming that it's explicitly they/them and acting like Mozilla is making a big deal about that. As if it matters either way.
Solid sleuthing there. Edited the post to include your context.
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The gender orientation of the firefox logo is something I haven't thought about ever.
What's the point of this?
The point is that you've fallen for some idiots on X making up culture war bullshit.
Kit's supposed pronouns aren't mentioned by Mozilla anywhere in any Mozilla announcements.
One news site attributes this quote to Mozilla
Kit (he/she/they/them/it) is the user’s constant companion. Wherever they choose to roam, Kit will accompany and guide them with clever, playful encouragement and support — giving the user the confidence to run free.
That's the one and only place that even remotely mentions it as far as I can tell. And it's not even a statement that it's NB or they/them... More like it's a fictional mascot call it what you want.
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It's a distraction from the real important issue, which is...
...what does the fox say? /j
Wha-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow?!
Ring-di-ding-di-ding-di-ding?
True, it was just "a fox" for me so far. I didn't really care about the gender of a drawing. I guess it is a good awareness move though
Feels like a publicity stunt more than a genuine attempt to include non-binary people.
Exactly this. It feels like some kind of nonsense spam or troll.
If I was to take the bait, I might say it was to cover for their CEO making some anti gay marriage political contribution. But that was like 15 years ago, I don’t even know if he’s still CEO or if anyone even remembers.
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A nuclear bomb just hir the furry community
Because it was what before? Why do we care about the gender identity of the fox mascot of a web browser?
Don’t answer, please
The joke is that computers use binary.
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Okay, I know that this is supposed to be a riff, but that non-binary line is fucking hilarious.
You could write the whole browser in some kind of interpreted script?
Iso-linear.
That's stupid, it was genderless before until they brought it up.
Mozilla didn't bring it up. The story is made up by right-wing trolls.
Don’t tell the furries
What if the answer is JavaScript?
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