Posted on 07/14/2008 3:29:56 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Sign of the times: Atlanta road signs to be gender neutral
Complaint results in Men at Work and Men Working Ahead signs being changed to read Workers Ahead
Atlanta, Georgia (14 July 2008) - Call it another sign of the times.
The City of Atlanta has accepted the complaint of a women's magazine editor and will begin using gender neutral language on its road construction signs. Those signs that now read Men at Work or Men Working Ahead are being replaced or altered to read Workers Ahead.
The Atlanta Public Works Commissioner agreed to the change after Cynthia Good, founder of Atlanta-based PINK Magazine, filed a formal complaint. In some cases the signs stood beside women working alongside men, Good said.
Now that she has won in Atlanta, Good is turning her attention to other cities across the United States. "We're calling on the rest of the nation to follow suit and make a statement that we will not accept these subtle forms of discrimination," she says
Well now that there are no streets in the battle area named after confederate generals, I guess this is next.
Since my hometown has no other problems in existence.
Country getting sicker and sicker ala Bob Grant.
What? No ‘Dykes In Ditchs’ signs? >;o)
She has a penis envy complex too.
Well, let’s see . . .
PERSONS WORKING . . . nope, got that “son” male heir thing on it . . .
PERHUMANS WORKING . . . nope, got that man thing at the end . . .
PERPEOPLE WORKING . . . nope, might offend the dolphins . . .
PERCREATURES WORKING . . . that’s more like it!
Glad to see that Atlanta has no bigger problems to solve.
What I never understood is that these feminists who seem to loathe men so much always have their faces made up with a half-inch of make-up, which makes me wonder — why?
We’ve had the generic “road work” and “workers ahead” signs for a while. I never thought of them as gender neutral, I thought of them as having smaller words (because you drop the “ing” of active verbs) and therefore larger more readable letters.
I like it!
How about
PERUNITS LEISURE CHALLENGED
Also, I hear they are removing the term “Black Hole”
from all school science books.
It should read “Persons Ahead Standing Around Leaning on Shovels”.
The next time I have to use the "rest room" in an airport, I'll use the toilet in the "Ladies" room.
And if some dyke wants to squat over a urinal in the "Mens" room, I won't care about that either.
“How about PERUNITS LEISURE CHALLENGED”
I like it . . . says it all!
But we left out the trees and plants . . .
PER MULTI-FACETED LIVING CREATURES, LARGE AND SMALL, CALORICALLY, MENTALLY, VISUALLY, PHYSICALLY, SUPERNATURALLY CHALLENGED WORKING . . .
(Our sign’s getting too big . . . )
Hu-mankind.
What happened to the mail-man?
Dead links.
Do these people realize that they are the butt of many jokes because of this kind of thing?
It trivializes real problems and real discrimination that may still exist, for all we know. If this is the biggest problem they can find, people won’t take them seriously.
And now that there are complaints about black holes, I guess we should call them African-American holes. Let’s change from black coffee to African-American coffee while we’re at it. Geez...............
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