A Spanish town council has vowed to banish sexism from street signage by demanding half of all road signs and traffic lights show female figures with skirts and ponytails.
Fuenlabrada, which lies south of the capital Madrid, will replace old and damaged road signs and traffic lights with new stock within a year. "In this way the sexism which until now has seen only masculine figures appear in traffic signals will be brought to an end," the town council said in a statement.
The council, which said it would ask manufacturers to incorporate female figures in their signs, would not cost taxpayers a penny.
"...female figures with skirts and ponytails..."
ReplyDelete...and the feminists hold another meeting to fight the sexist image of what constitutes a "woman".
solution?
a stick man...i mean stick person.
genitalia-free
lol has the feminist cause been reduced to road posts !
ReplyDeletewhat about the objectification of women in media should we use stick figures for that too XD
no_angel...it's 2006...they can use computer generated graphics and it would work out for the best: i would love to see the evening news delivered to me by a non-gender cartoon.
ReplyDeleteThis is so ridiculous. Who cares if the signs shows a man or a woman? Has feminism come down to changing all signs to women? What this spanish town is doing discriminates against men. If you must make a big deal about this, then use a non gender cartoon but for God's sake, let's not forget the big picture. Road signs are to give people in the streets directions. I'm sure men didn't sit around some office saying, let's make the stick figure a man because women are inferior.
ReplyDeleteGive me a break! (and no this post is not written by a man)
Its just humour...lets not take life so seriously!!!!
ReplyDeleteI remember in the Red Cross UN centre- forget what the exact name was, in Geneva the restrooms have male and female signs by picture.
ReplyDeleteThe women's side having a female character with short hair-just below the ears- with a two piece suit-skirt and a brief case.