Green Woman...
 Dumbest. Thing. Ever. Really, who was offended by the green man? It's not that having a green woman is in itself silly, either will do, it's the fact they even feel the need. It just seems that someone has sad down and thought "Hmm, we're discriminating, must make both genders." I'm sure women would rather have real equal pay (not just legally, but in practice too) than have some woman at the green light. My main problem with such political correctness is it's utter pointlessness, it does nothing about real issues of inequality, it's just making silly gestures. Hat tip to Georgia for pointing it out!
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petescully / Website (30.4.08 18:19) oh i think it's brilliant! I really do. Travelling all over Europe I loved all the different cross-walk signs (god i'm starting to sound american, 'cross-walk'), i gave them all names (fats waller is the one in germany, and the one in either hungary or czech republic is holding a briefcase and is obviously a cold-war era spy). Even more variety is brilliant! Except it implies Viennese women don't wear trousers. And she's carrying a mallet by the looks of it. the thing that strikes me is the German phrase "Wien ist Gender Mainstreaming", German language is so full of English phrases these days. more than ever. |
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petescully / Website (30.4.08 18:20) Or PERHAPS it is a man, and this is just a pedestrian cross-dressing... |
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Katja / Website (30.4.08 18:22) I'm far more offended by the fact that women in Green world are 1950s throwbacks and carry ugly handbags. |
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amillionpieces / Website (30.4.08 19:25) I'm sorry peter but you really did lose me at the word cross-walk.  They do sound rather entertaining though!
I guess stick figures for cross-dressers, dwarves, and everyone else who feels under represented is next
Katja, ever the fashionista! They could have given her decent heels too :P |
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petescully / Website (30.4.08 21:30) i think there's a joke in there somewhere. How do you make an austrian cross? wait for the green woman. Hey, it's german humour, gimme a break... |
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Huwie / Website (1.5.08 10:14) I am loving this. And judging from the position of both man's and woman's arms, are they crossing a road or a narrow creak above a perilous death-ensuing drop? Or maybe they're boogie-ing across in the road in very funky fashion? |
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Georgia (1.5.08 12:46) See.. told you it was a good blog topic ;-) |
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amillionpieces / Website (1.5.08 13:47) Pete, haha, I like that joke! Germans having a sense of humour? That is funny
Huwie, you could be right, maybe they're tight rope walking dangerously close to the edge. Georgia, you were, as ever, correct! :P |
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fabulous / Website (5.5.08 11:44) haha. But i want to know why green?. cant they have blue men and pink women?. Come one i mean if there going to have women they should at least have the right colour?. |
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amillionpieces / Website (5.5.08 14:28) Fab, I can see confusion ensuing as we give them all colours for the very latest seasons
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fab / Website (5.5.08 21:00) ooh yes and since she has a handbag we could at least give her a designer one. And maybe an up to date hair do and some fashionable clothes other than that A line skirt. Oooh the possibilities are endless. |
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c-side / Website (5.5.08 23:50) Lol 
Perhaps it's a man in women's clothing? As for PC, you know my thoughts on that one x |
