Do you think it is discriminatory for Yahoo to have the default avatar as blatantly male?

Q: http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/sch/gr2/nophoto3_48x48.gif Do do you think they should change it to make the gender ambiguous like the MSN default avatars? If the default avatar was female I think this topic would have been mentioned more often, but since it is male I think it just passes over many people's heads.

A: Its just your common or garden unconscious sexism... male is generic, female is specific.. few people notice that they make hundreds of these discriminatory choices every day. Its a valid point and I reckon you should tell yahoo - as they are big enough to know better.

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