I am female. I don’t wear lipstick, nor do I carry a purse. I have single-handedly raised a son earned a college degree in computer programming.& I occasionally work as a security guard and I left my career to drive a semi truck for a while to see what it’s like. I am also a very successful work at home entrepreneur and have been since 1999. When my son was growing up, I was his room mom, den mom, soccer coach, and baseball coach.

now, having said all that, I only recently found your website yesterday. I liked what I’ve seen so far, including your feminine icons for women. You do awesome work, and you will never be able to please all people. Men have come a long way too in regards to caring for their families and their children and their households… I know many single dads…But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t create a set of icons for men that include baseballs, footballs, lawnmowers and outdoor grills for fear that you might offend all of their parenting accomplishments!

Do what you do best and do it because you enjoy it. Don’t apologize for it because people don’t necessarily agree with what you’ve created. If they don’t like it, then they certainly don’t have to use it. And trust me, if you lose a subscriber because they think that you have a poor sense of judgment, I promise you you’ll have 10 other people signing up to get your icons because they will adore what you do!

There are certainly people out there, both men AND women, who don’t appreciate what the opposite gender has been able to accomplish in their lives. Don’t let it bring you down.
Debi J

The Woman’s Movement has been, and is, about choice. Many of us choose to celebrate our femininity as well as champion for equal rights.

Those who protest these symbols you have created as being “insensitive” and/or “ignorant” as well as being shocked and/or outraged by them are the reason “we still have a long way to go” as well as having “Come A Long Way Baby”.

I Came-Of-Age in the ’70′s, was an independent career woman, with a 22-year career in a 97%-male-dominated profession in aviation, from a lineage of pioneering women,
lived in the Arctic and sub-Arctic for over 14 years and am an ardent feminist.

Just because I can hold my own, or better, in a work environment doesn’t mean I don’t want some pretty icons like these for marking my folder organizations.

Shame on the complainers for make you hesitate about doing something like this again in the future. I’m all for some pretties to brighten up my electronic life.

Thanks for sharing and please, don’t hesitate to make some more. I’m always looking for icons for my medical files, my different (girly) friends [some with gray hair, some who are not size 2 but size 20, some who wear nothin but dresses], my W.W.D.O. activities [Wild Woman's Day Off], and just different coloured open and closed folders [pink, purple, polka dotted, flowered, feminine scrolls, leafy, "pretty"].

Oh! You can start a new set with a “Chill Pill” icon! I used to have one but it got lost in the new computer shuffle over the years.

Thanks again for sharing.

Sue,
on-the-farm