I think we should steer a lot further from high-school tropes. Right now you seem a whisker away from grabbing her stuff, offering it back to her, then throwing it to a mate when she reaches for it. I don’t think that’s exactly the atmosphere we’re aiming for, do you?
With that said, note that the scienceblogs author and most of the commenters were female, and didn’t make the inference, “alicorn = unicorn-related = probably female”.
I think we should steer a lot further from high-school tropes. Right now you seem a whisker away from grabbing her stuff, offering it back to her, then throwing it to a mate when she reaches for it. I don’t think that’s exactly the atmosphere we’re aiming for, do you?
Agreed, and voted up.
With that said, note that the scienceblogs author and most of the commenters were female, and didn’t make the inference, “alicorn = unicorn-related = probably female”.