askandanswer Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 Female traffic light signals to go up at pedestrian crossing as Committee for Melbourne tackles 'unconscious bias' http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-07/female-traffic-light-signals-melbourne-pedestrian-crossing/8330560 Chief executive Martine Letts said having only green or red silhouettes of men discriminated against women. "The idea is to install traffic lights with female representation, as well as male representation, to help reduce unconscious bias," she said. Ms Letts said the group wanted to see female and male representation on all pedestrian crossings. "The aim is to move towards one-to-one male and female representation across the state of Victoria." It costs an average of $8,400 to change six traffic lights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anatess2 Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 Yeay! The social justice warriors are at it again! The conservatives gain more supporters! Go right, Australia! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeuroTypical Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 Heh. Poor Melbourne - don't they know they're reinforcing archaic stereotypes? What, all women gotta wear dresses? [insert tacky barefoot in the kitchen joke here] mordorbund, NightSG, Anddenex and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LiterateParakeet Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 Good grief. I never even thought of a gender for those traffic signals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anatess2 Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 This is why women stay far away from the Feminist movement In the US, only 23% of women identify themselves as feminists even as over 80% of them believe in gender equality and a majority of them are in the Democrat Party - the political party of the feminists. In the UK, only 7% of women identify themselves as feminists. In Australia, feminism is so disparaged that they changed the name to lefty-feminism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MormonGator Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 I can't believe all you misogynists are not more accepting of this. We all know that the number one problem facing women today is clearly their representation on traffic lights. Shame on all of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anatess2 Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 Meanwhile, in my neck of the woods, a bunch of people - about a dozen or so - marched in all white with red paint, like blood, on their crotch. I was thinking... oh... a feminist march demanding free sanitary pads and tampons... But to my surprise, the signs they were holding said - "Circumcision is Genital Mutilation". So yeah, at least its a change from the standard leftist protests around here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
askandanswer Posted March 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 And now some people have started to wonder aloud if, for the sake of equality, we should start having traffic lights depicting disabled and elderly and LGBTI people. Interestingly, these calls were coming from both people who liked, and who disliked the idea, but it seemed like those who disliked the idea were being sarcastic, not genuine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeuroTypical Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 The interwebs beats with the heart of snark, and works at almost the speed of light. askandanswer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeuroTypical Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 Oh wait - no it doesn't. These are real stoplights, and happened in Vienna Austria in 2015. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/13/viennas-gay-straight-and-lesbian-crossing-lights-show-all-walks-of-life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unixknight Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 Am I the only one who thinks it's self-contradictory (and therefore hilarious) that the idea is the traffic lights are bad because they fail to show a silhouette of a person in a dress.... which is the sort of gender stereotypes these people usually complain about? Maybe the signs ALREADY show men and women... just everybody's wearing pants. Sunday21, NightSG, bytebear and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeuroTypical Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 Unixknight is anti-male-cross-dressing! I mean really, it's even been on StarTrek - how can ya be so backwards! unixknight 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unixknight Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 17 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said: Unixknight is anti-male-cross-dressing! I mean really, it's even been on StarTrek - how can ya be so backwards! Haha nice! Actually, this is how we know how screwed up all the gender-bending politics really is... Your joke actually reinforces my point, because if cross-dressing is normal for both sexes, then the sign depicting a person in a dress should have the EXACT same meaning as one who isn't. Therefore changing all the signs is a waste because we now have TWO ways in which the existing signs already referred to everybody. SilentOne and NeuroTypical 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traveler Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 To quote Shakespeare “Nothing is as good or as bad as it seems only that thinking makes it so”. The Traveler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MormonGator Posted March 7, 2017 Report Share Posted March 7, 2017 52 minutes ago, Traveler said: To quote Shakespeare “Nothing is as good or as bad as it seems only that thinking makes it so”. The Traveler Amen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Osborn Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 Utterly ridiculous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
askandanswer Posted March 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 19 hours ago, LiterateParakeet said: Good grief. I never even thought of a gender for those traffic signals. It seems like the signals are sending out signals mordorbund, unixknight and anatess2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
askandanswer Posted March 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 20 hours ago, anatess2 said: Yeay! The social justice warriors are at it again! The conservatives gain more supporters! Go right, Australia! Australia certainly is taking a hard turn to the right at the moment. The state elections in Western Australia this weekend will provide a great insight into just how hard and how fast we are making that turn as this will be the first entrance of new far right One Nation party on a large scale in a state election. anatess2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mordorbund Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 On 3/7/2017 at 11:55 AM, MormonGator said: I can't believe all you misogynists are not more accepting of this. We all know that the number one problem facing women today is clearly their representation on traffic lights. Shame on all of you. The #1 problem facing women in Australia is waiting for the light to change so they can find a bathroom across the street: (actual image from the article) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bytebear Posted March 8, 2017 Report Share Posted March 8, 2017 Well, what about fat people? Clearly the light is weight biased. yjacket 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mordorbund Posted March 9, 2017 Report Share Posted March 9, 2017 21 minutes ago, bytebear said: Well, what about fat people? Clearly the light is weight biased. It's not a traffic heavy signal. Vort and Anddenex 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentOne Posted March 9, 2017 Report Share Posted March 9, 2017 On 3/7/2017 at 11:19 AM, unixknight said: Am I the only one who thinks it's self-contradictory (and therefore hilarious) that the idea is the traffic lights are bad because they fail to show a silhouette of a person in a dress.... which is the sort of gender stereotypes these people usually complain about? Maybe the signs ALREADY show men and women... just everybody's wearing pants. That was the first thing I thought. Then I wondered if they were actually just making signals with more of a figure, but looking at the picture mordorbund posted, apparently not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackmarch Posted March 9, 2017 Report Share Posted March 9, 2017 On March 7, 2017 at 2:10 AM, askandanswer said: Female traffic light signals to go up at pedestrian crossing as Committee for Melbourne tackles 'unconscious bias' http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-07/female-traffic-light-signals-melbourne-pedestrian-crossing/8330560 Chief executive Martine Letts said having only green or red silhouettes of men discriminated against women. "The idea is to install traffic lights with female representation, as well as male representation, to help reduce unconscious bias," she said. Ms Letts said the group wanted to see female and male representation on all pedestrian crossings. "The aim is to move towards one-to-one male and female representation across the state of Victoria." It costs an average of $8,400 to change six traffic lights. So now your going to be subliminally telling people that one gender means go while the other means stop? unixknight and zil 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday21 Posted March 9, 2017 Report Share Posted March 9, 2017 Why can't we be more concerned about women who can't drive in Saudi, women being mutilated in Africa, women denied education in Afghanistan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just_A_Guy Posted March 9, 2017 Report Share Posted March 9, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, Sunday21 said: Why can't we be more concerned about women who can't drive in Saudi, women being mutilated in Africa, women denied education in Afghanistan? Because the men involved in those scenarios, fight back. With lethal force. Edited March 9, 2017 by Just_A_Guy Vort 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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