The female silhouette is no longer in the shadow of the male in the friends icon.
You may have noticed a small but symbolic change to the friend request icon on your Facebook page.
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The icon has been altered so the female figure is in front of the male one, after Facebook designer Caitlin Winner noticed that previously "the woman was quite literally in the shadow of the man".
"Much to my dismay, not long into my tenure as a Facebook designer I found something in the company glyph kit worth getting upset about," Winner said in a post on Medium.
The first thing she noticed was that "the iconic man was symmetrical except for his spiked hairdo but the lady had a chip in her shoulder," and that the chip just so happened to be "exactly where the man icon would be placed in front of her".
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"I assumed no ill intentions, just a lack of consideration but as a lady with two robust shoulders, the chip offended me," Winner said.
"it was hard not to read into the symbolism of the current icon," she added.
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