Xenia, the fox girl mascot of Linux, was first designed in 1996 by Alan Mackey. She was meant to be an alternative to Tux, the official mascot.

She had fallen into obscurity, but was noticed by a Twitter user in 2019 and was redrawn as a fox girl. But as it turned out, Xenia was originally meant to be male! The original creator, Alan, was cool with this, saying “It matches the transition of a lot of the smartest, nerdiest Linux users I know” and “And sure, you made her trans!”.

So now we have a trans Linux mascot. And I think that’s neat.

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  • Luna [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    The latter is a vent, the former is talking about fucking pronouns pronouns

    transphobia

    Everytime I see “he or she” it tickles me, in a bad way. Why was this popularized, or used at all, when “they” is not only a better catch-all when gender and/or pronouns are unknown, AND “they” makes the sentence more fluid and feels more grammatically correct? I don’t know if the cis are alright…

    ableism, slurs mentioned

    Well, the radlib co-worker strikes again. Always get a bad feeling about him whenever he talks about certain things. It’s like, he’s ALMOST there, but has to ruin it with some sort of lib garbage. Or, even better, some GAMER WORDS just to spice things up, ya know? Just casually drop the r-slur, it was totally necessary to make your point known.

    Like, as a queer person, why are you using ableist slurs when many queer people are neurodivergent? Why are you even using slurs in the first place when it’s something you’ve probably been on the receiving end of? Long story short, shouldn’t have expected anything less from a radlib, but these kind of things just piss me off. Why do people insist on language that has been used to hurt others (AND ME) when it’s so easy NOT TO? ralsei-angry

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago
      transphobia

      We didn’t know, they/them is a great encapsulation for plenty of non-binary people but there was only a wasteland for gender stuff before the 2010s unless you were lucky and ran into some theorist early. People maybe knew binary trans people existed and only really that trans women existed. My ex was nonbinary their whole life, only started using they/them pronouns in like 2018. Which was weird to think about cause like their dead name it’s weird to ever think I had used different pronouns for them at some point including back in like 2010.