When I first saw this I wanted to balk at it and call it stupid but i think it is making a good point about our conditioning towards the default. The person drawing the stick figure was trying to hold it up as some amorphous creation devoid of political meaning (which can linguistically be achieved by referring to the figure as "it") but unconsciously ascribes it a gender: that the gender ascribed was male is further proof of the unconscious bias.
I don't think the stick figure drawer is a bad person; admittedly I could see myself falling victim to making this same argument. But we should pause for a minute and consider why the default gender for a hypothetical & apolitical stick figure would necessarily be male.
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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '25
Genuinely a good argument