Sexist Street Signs

kDB · 11-12-2006, 05:32 PM

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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.
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"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.
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link to the very short article

If this was in the USA I'd be angry that taxes were going towards this. It does say it won't cost taxpayers more, but that really just means they aren't going to increase taxes for it. There's still the time wasted on meetings. Money has to be spent to design the signs. More to adjust the equipment to accommodate the new signs. And so on.

dragonfly · 11-12-2006, 05:38 PM

Why were they putting masculine figures on traffic signals?

daniel · 11-12-2006, 06:34 PM

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Why were they putting masculine figures on traffic signals?
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Typically in Europe traffic signs and signals use figures rather than words, so that foreigners will understand the meaning.

And note that the figures are not necessarily males. They are symbolic representations of figures with male clothing. The new figures, with dresses and pony tails could well be male cross-dressers. The current figures could be female cross-dressers.

These confounded sexists are going to replace the present crop of cross-dressing females with male drag queens! Scandalous!

dragonfly · 11-12-2006, 06:45 PM

Yeah, it was the traffic signal thing that threw me. (Red, yellow, green circles.) I figured it out though, it's the walk/don't walk signal.

Sufferin' Prius Envy · 11-12-2006, 08:22 PM

They need to stop being so puritanical and make the new figures anatomically correct.
That way the signs can also help teach their children that there is a difference between boys and girls.

See if the women complain then.

The guys sure haven't complained about the supposedly male figures being neutered.

skruse · 11-12-2006, 08:26 PM

And there will be confusion in Scotland by those wearing kilts . . .

Rae Vynn · 05-23-2007, 07:17 PM

In Mexico, the pedestrian crossing signs have very buff-looking figures... lots of machismo

(or, they did when I was down there last... about 12 years ago)

Pinto Girl · 05-23-2007, 08:27 PM

There was a meter reader near my old office who drove a Cushman vehicle...she (I'm assuming she herself did it) crossed out the 'man' in Cush'man' and wrote in 'person.'

That may be taking it a bit too far, I think, even for a knee-jerk, orgy-crazed west coast liberal like myself!

hyo silver · 05-23-2007, 08:34 PM

Wait. Did you say 'orgy-crazed'? Tell me again when the next Prius meet is?

Stev0 · 05-23-2007, 08:48 PM

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There was a meter reader near my old office who drove a Cushman vehicle...she (I'm assuming she herself did it) crossed out the 'man' in Cush'man' and wrote in 'person.'

That may be taking it a bit too far, I think, even for a knee-jerk, orgy-crazed west coast liberal like myself!
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I'm shocked they used such a sexist term as "person" - shouldn't that be "peroffspring"?

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11-12-2006, 05:38 PM	#2
dragonfly Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,921 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 1	Why were they putting masculine figures on traffic signals?

11-12-2006, 06:45 PM	#4
dragonfly Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,921 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 1	Yeah, it was the traffic signal thing that threw me. (Red, yellow, green circles.) I figured it out though, it's the walk/don't walk signal.

11-12-2006, 08:22 PM	#5
Sufferin' Prius Envy Platinum Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: USA Posts: 4,012 My Car: Other Non-Hybrid Package: N/A Nominated 15 Times in 1 Post TOTM Awards: 1 Friends: 0	They need to stop being so puritanical and make the new figures anatomically correct. That way the signs can also help teach their children that there is a difference between boys and girls. See if the women complain then. The guys sure haven't complained about the supposedly male figures being neutered.

11-12-2006, 08:26 PM	#6
skruse Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Great Central Valley, Fresno, CA Posts: 1,132 My Car: 2007 Prius Package: #6 Touring Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 2	And there will be confusion in Scotland by those wearing kilts . . .

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Rae Vynn Resident Witch Join Date: May 2007 Location: Grays Harbor, WA, USA Posts: 2,807 My Car: 2007 Prius Package: Base Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 52	In Mexico, the pedestrian crossing signs have very buff-looking figures... lots of machismo (or, they did when I was down there last... about 12 years ago)

05-23-2007, 08:27 PM	#8
Pinto Girl Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 2,372 My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #9 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	There was a meter reader near my old office who drove a Cushman vehicle...she (I'm assuming she herself did it) crossed out the 'man' in Cush'man' and wrote in 'person.' That may be taking it a bit too far, I think, even for a knee-jerk, orgy-crazed west coast liberal like myself!

05-23-2007, 08:34 PM	#9
hyo silver awaaay Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Vancouver, BC Posts: 7,397 My Car: 2004 Prius Package: Base Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 32	Wait. Did you say 'orgy-crazed'? Tell me again when the next Prius meet is?