Female traffic light signals to go up at pedestrian crossing as Committee for Melbourne tackles 'unc - Polidicks

[QUOTE][B]Pedestrian traffic lights depicting female figures will be installed in Melbourne's CBD today as a part of a lobby group's push for gender equality. [/B]Ten female pedestrian figures will be installed on traffic lights at the intersection of Swanston and Flinders streets as part of a VicRoads-approved 12-month trial.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]"The idea is to install traffic lights with female representation, as well as male representation, to help reduce unconscious bias," she said.[/QUOTE] [URL]http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-07/female-traffic-light-signals-melbourne-pedestrian-crossing/8330560[/URL] sorry if it was posted before and I'm just blind fucked the title up, could a mod fix it? ty

ive never even thought of signals as displaying any real gender and just being ambiguous

Why? It symbolizes movement, not who can do the moving. Does this mean men can't walk now? Is that how ridiculous we're getting with this?

Finally my mum can cross after waiting at the lights for 30 years... Waste of time and money in my opinion. City of Yarra / VicRoads had recently put up a set of pedestrian crossing lights with an old woman on both at Bridge Road and Bosisto Street - and no one cared then. [URL="https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.8183449,144.9970022,3a,15y,349.07h,86.54t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sl6zqq1QBYoBsU6xKmh6eFg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656"]https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.8183449,144.9970022,3a,15y,202.12h,87.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sl6zqq1QBYoBsU6xKmh6eFg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656[/URL] The go woman looks like shes bent over and everything.

for some reason I thought this meant they specifically made this for when female pedestrians are crossing the street

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for equal rights, but this is stretching it way too far.

Literally the social justice version of racketeering.

I don't think I've ever even focused on the shape being lit up than the color itself to know when to walk. Don't honestly see the point of this, but I think the city deserves a better municipality if this is the sort of inconsequential non-issues they want to pay attention to.

[quote]'Culture of sexism' includes small issues, Minister says[/quote] like traffic lights? fuck off

did they just assume that stick figures gender?

[QUOTE=MR-X;51924859]did they just assume that stick figures gender?[/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/skO4bG9.jpg[/img]

Yes, this is a great stride forward as we all know women don't have 2 arms 2 legs a body and a head. A stick figure with 2 arms 2 legs a body and a head is clearly oppressive to women.

Nothing says empowering women like having the symbol that identifies them have a skirt. Almost all women I see on a regular basis wear pants, leggings, or shorts anyway so the default walk icon can apply to your average woman like it does your average man.

[QUOTE=Furnost;51924774]ive never even thought of signals as displaying any real gender and just being ambiguous[/QUOTE] It's like when people were making a big deal out of some coin making lady liberty black and I was just sitting there going "I thought she was just green"

I am very much for progressive politics, including equality-of-outcome gender equality, but things like this make the entirety of progressive politics look like a joke in the eyes of the average person.

[QUOTE=Swiket;51924798]for some reason it thought this meant they specifically made this for when female pedestrians are crossing the street[/QUOTE] Literally speaking, in a sane world, this is what this would mean and why you would make the distinction at all. The reason we haven't done this before being immediately obvious: [B]It's completely unnecessary and doesn't make sense.[/B] What is it these days and trying to make the world female friendly like this? Is ambiguity too threatening?

[URL="https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/"]/r/Melbourne is looking fantastic at the moment [/URL]

Time to walk girlss Finally free from the 8 LED light man's grasp

Isn't this just stereotyping women as people who wear dresses/skirts?

Surely there are much more pressing issues for equality than what gender the crosswalk signal is.

[QUOTE=Adelle Zhu;51924812]Literally the social justice version of racketeering.[/QUOTE] What do you think racketeering is?

[QUOTE=geel9;51924982]What do you think racketeering is?[/QUOTE] When lawmakers assault people with tennis rackets, why? Do we have to call it a stickperson now?

[QUOTE]"Some people have expressed a little scepticism wondering whether it's gesture politics rather than having any real substance," she said. "But these symbols are a practical and meaningful way to demonstrate that in fact 50 per cent of our population is female and should therefore also be represented at traffic lights."[/QUOTE] :doubt:

Before everyone gets their knickers in a twist at this being a waste of taxpayers money, the lights were funded by the sponsorship of a private electrical company and were not taxpayer funded Not here to offer an opinion but just here to say if you think it's taxpayer funded, it's not

Nice to know you guys can get pissed off over ten traffic lights. [QUOTE=DogGunn;51924796]Waste of time and money in my opinion. [/QUOTE] This is going to cost exactly as much time and money as ten standard traffic lights.

[QUOTE=DogGunn;51924796]Finally my mum can cross after waiting at the lights for 30 years... Waste of time and money in my opinion. City of Yarra / VicRoads had recently put up a set of pedestrian crossing lights with an old woman on both at Bridge Road and Bosisto Street - and no one cared then. [URL="https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.8183449,144.9970022,3a,15y,349.07h,86.54t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sl6zqq1QBYoBsU6xKmh6eFg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656"]https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.8183449,144.9970022,3a,15y,202.12h,87.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sl6zqq1QBYoBsU6xKmh6eFg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656[/URL] The go woman looks like shes bent over and everything.[/QUOTE] That was to commemorate their first female councilwoman and seems fine to me [editline]7th March 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Paramud;51925047]Nice to know you guys can get pissed off over ten traffic lights. This is going to cost exactly as much time and money as ten standard traffic lights.[/QUOTE] They'll cost even less since they're privately funded

Congratulations - by making the distinction in a genderless [I]stick figure[/I] you have created inequality in a place it previously did not exist. :goodjob: Imagine being so anti-[I]something [/I]you end up fostering the exact thing you claim to oppose.

[QUOTE=Paramud;51925047] This is going to cost exactly as much time and money as ten standard traffic lights.[/QUOTE] Not necessarily. Even though they're not costing the taxpayers anything, the actual cost will likely be more expensive than a non-gendered light. At the very least, they'll have to pay someone to reconfigure the lights to display a woman as opposed to a man. It depends on how traffic lights are actually structured, but it's going to cost something.

[QUOTE=killerteacup;51925049]They'll cost even less since they're privately funded[/QUOTE] Yes, but I was speaking practically. To whoever is footing the bill, the cost will be exactly the same.

[QUOTE=Furnost;51924774]ive never even thought of signals as displaying any real gender and just being ambiguous[/QUOTE] Yeah I think people are looking too far into things now.