#code decoded

Apparently I am equivalent to Barilla pasta.

No.  Barilla is selling slightly homophobic pasta.  Code Decoded is stealing and selling the identities it claims to represent.

"In order to achieve this balance we’ll first need to level the playing field and attain gender equality."

via codedecoded

Code Decoded, you need to stop.  I'm all for gender equality, but you're going about it the wrong way.

First, you're representing a binary gender system.  How do you represent the LGBT+ community if you don't represent the "T+" and barely even the L and B?  You don't, that's how.  Go sell a white cismale hanky code 2.0, but at least advertise it as such.

Second, you don't even try to attain a gender balance in your own products.  All your terminology is based on white cismale gay culture.  "Versatile," for goodness' sake.  I think most other people use "switch."  Not to mention that that code appropriates asexuals' colors.  You could have found out what purple meant with a google search.  Then on top of that, two of your codes reinforce the active/passive split in traditional gender roles.  It's been a year of customer complaints, and you still haven't fixed that.  (And you also haven't released your promised app, which someone with a year of college computer science could write in less than 12 hours.)

Third, there's the semantic issue of equity vs. equality, and assimilation instead of acceptance and respect of differences.  That is a topic that should be addressed in an independent post.  For now, suffice it to say that your feel-good messages completely leave out pretty much any queer who isn't white, monogamous, middle-class-to-rich, and either cisgender or at least binary trans* and passing--i.e., at least 75% of the actual queer community.

Fourth, you need to source your damn art.  Unsourced art is stolen art--for goodness sake, you learned about citations and plagiarism in 8th grade.  (Or you would have, if you hadn't been staring at that hot teacher's butt.)  There are 2 possibilities here.  One, you've blatantly stolen art and photoshopped your logo onto it.  I consider this the most likely.  Two, you've either hired an artist or it's a fan submission, and you're being incredibly rude by not sourcing it.  Either way, it's completely inexcusable.  I want a bibliography, now, and if you can't produce one in one (1) week, I'm reporting your blog.

BOYCOTT BINARISM

BOYCOTT HYPOCRISY

BOYCOTT ASSIMILATION

BOYCOTT PLAGIARISM

And that's just insane.  I am taking an intro computer science course this semester, and I can pretty much guarantee that by January I'd be able to write the "rough draft" of a program that could do this, and write it in less than 12 hours.  Heck, I could probably write most of it now, I just don't know how to embed an interactive color selector.

So Code Decoded basically has two choices:

Admit they're bullshit and shut down, or

Hire me as CEO/Head of both R&D and Marketing so I can make their company halfway legit and intersectional.