Atlanta Stripped of 'Men at Work' Signs After Complaints of Bias
We read:
"Political correctness rules the road in Atlanta - which is replacing all its "Men at Work" signs with gender-neutral ones after a women's magazine editor complained of bias. The project, which involves painting over the existing 50 "Men at Work" and "Men Working" signs with those that say simply "Workers Ahead" or "Workers," will cost a total of $1,000, Atlanta Public Works Commissioner Joe Basista told FOXNews.com.
About half of the city's 100 Public Works employees are women, said Basista, so he complied with PINK magazine editor Cynthia Good's request to stop warning passersby of men at work when women were right there alongside them. "It seemed like the right thing to do," Basista said. The change-over, which Basista wants to complete by the end of the month, has met with little resistance so far, he said....
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We used to have 'Men at Work' signs in Australia too but they were eventually withdrawn out of embarrassment. Usually, there was nobody to be seen working at the place concerned. "Roadworks ahead" is now the most common sign.
4 comments:
How about just using the word "Caution" therefore no one is accused of working?
How about just saying "dyke hags and men working ahead"!! hahaha
In 1990 the City of Sacramento female mayor decided that the term Manhole cover was sexist. She then embarked on a year of study for a new name. And the result became a Maintenance Hole Cover, which they liked because the short version was still a MH cover. Every was happy and the workers could still say manhole cover, when there was a bunch of hissy women around.
Around 1995, a computer school that taught how to hook up cables for networking was sued in Superior Court of San Francisco. His problem was that a Very Un-politically Correct thing was being taught. In a class that he took, the dumb instructor tried to teach that two “male” cables can’t be connected together, without an adapter. But he knew that he and his partner fitted together wonderfully without and adapter.
I don’t know what happened to this case, but we still know that two male or two female parts can’t be connected without an adapter!
Mobius
I think it's time for the band "Men at Work" to schedule a performance in Atlanta!
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