LG-"gender studyists" seem to have been able to ignore whatever scant opposition they've received for their illogical appropriation of the interlinked male & female symbols:
 269F  26A4 'Interlocked Female And Male Sign' = bisɛҳuąƖity
But that fails to conform to semantics that were established by the LG-"gender studyists" themselves.
I'm
shocked, just
shocked!  The
failure of logic, including failing to recognize
semantic patterns, is probably what should be expected when
postmodern navel-gazing &
self-esteem exercises are combined and promoted into a
highly dubious collegiate academic field, note-worthy for its
rejection of
objective reality as irrelevant. The poster-woman for that field is no less than the rampaging professoress Melissa Click, who was rightfully fired from the U. of Mizzou earlier this year. But I digress.
Here's an illustration
- of my argument, for readers not accustomed to rummaging thro' the overwhelmingly numerous collection of specification docuмents for blocks of characters in Unicode:
(Image-credit to AlligatorDicax: C.C.-by-S.A.-
noncommercial)
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Note *: In Unicode, where the symbols in question are usable, with fonts[**] that contain them, as if they were ordinary letters of text, the traditional biological 'female' and 'male' symbols are defined among astrology/astronomical symbols, as
U+2640 (
♀) and
U+2642 (
♂). The paired symbols in the illustration are defined among symbols for "
genealogy, botany, and
modern gender studies"; in the left to right order in the illustration, they are
U+26A3 (
⚣),
U+26A2 (
⚢), and
U+26A4 (
⚤). The long-established '
interlocked pair of rings' that traditionally signify '
marriage' are in the same row, as
U+26AD (
⚭) (the next 2 symbols are for 'divorce' and 'unmarried partnership', i.e.: cohabitation).
Note **:
Some readers
should see those symbols under discussion within parentheses in my note '*' above. They should be visible to readers who are users of Windows version 7-&-beyond, which comes with the MS "Segoe UI" & "Segoe Emoji" fonts, plus users of older versions of Windows who've downloaded and installed independent fonts like "Symbola", which I believe works on Windows versions at least as far back as
98. I'm sure there are comparable fonts for apple and linux, but I don't recall the name(s).
Note #: I specifically resized the 800×800 version to which I had access,
down to 400×400 before uploading it, so that its visual size would
not be so visually overwhelming (it has more image resolution than its simple content requires). So I conclude that image files, when uploaded using the simplest procedures, are displayed completely beyond the control of nonowner-nonmoderator users and BBCode/MBCode "img" tags, thus my image displayed as "400px × 400px (
scaled [up] to 600px × 600px)", defeating my effort to
shrink the file!  I see something closer to what I intended when I explicitly replaced the "attachment" with a
MBCode "img" tag identifying the image itself by its location as stored from the CathInfo upload, but even then, I got "400px × 400px (
scaled [up] to 500px × 500px)"! 
Whyzzat!?  Neither inserting "=400x400" immediately after "img" (as implemented for some dialects of
BBcode), nor inserting "width=400" (as implemented for other dialects), restrained the image to its uploaded dimensions. I'm hoping that having clicked the "Remove attachment" button, that it doesn't
imply also deleting my
uploaded file.
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