Sexist New Zealand road signs to be changed after 7 y/o girl’s letter

[The Diver]

“Why does it say ‘LINEMEN’ when the people working on the lines may be men or women?”

CONCERNS voiced by a seven-year-old New Zealand girl regarding “unfair” road signs that exclude women have been heard by the country’s transport authority.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/...r/news-story/e5e7abab262e32caca71675664c8ef73


Are we losing the war to feminism? Lol

 

[Von]

“Why does it say ‘LINEMEN’ when the people working on the lines may be men or women?”

CONCERNS voiced by a seven-year-old New Zealand girl regarding “unfair” road signs that exclude women have been heard by the country’s transport authority.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/...r/news-story/e5e7abab262e32caca71675664c8ef73


Are we losing the war to feminism? Lol

Truth always come out of the mouth of kids Lol.

She's is factual.

What does linemen even mean... Use contructionworker! Lol.

Kids are sensible to these things and she does point a fact.... Women are pickup space in the construction/transport business.... So if you see a woman on site... Why use the Word "men"

In the French language, we could say to little girl... When there is a Féminine (female) and Masculin (male)... The male noun takes priority... Thus "linemem" .. You would need to have 2 more women to make it "linewomen".

Where i live people are starting to challenge that.. To have gender neutral words/noun/grammar.. And inclue both male/female noun

 

[zekko]

This is nonsense. "Man" does not necessarily mean a male, it is also used in the same sense of "mankind".
It could mean a human being. Educate the seven year old instead of bending to her will.

 

[Atom Smasher]

Precisely.

 

[The Diver]

To have gender neutral words/noun/grammar.. And inclue both male/female noun

Let's take it a bit further.
It reminds me of Lindsay Shepherd case in Canada. A case about the state of free speech on university campuses and about labelled a transphobe. It's about using gender pronouns other than “he” or “she" , (regardless of being transgenders.)
She is a teaching assistant who showed her class of first-year undergrads a short video clip featuring controversial University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson as part of a debate from a public broadcasting show; the self-described leftist who opened up a discussion on the use of gendered pronouns.

Google it if you are not familiar with it, an interesting case to follow up.

In this pace, it looks like New Zeland will have to change all its road signs to include transgender workers as well, They only need one complaining latter from unhappy transgender, Lol

 

[ChristopherColumbus]

She was already educated by a feminist.

That is not education. That is indoctrination.

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

Educate the seven year old instead of bending to her will.

I'm pretty sure a grownup used her to allegedly be the voice behind the letter.

 

[The Diver]

I'm pretty sure a grownup used her to allegedly be the voice behind the letter.

Yes, that was my first thought as well.

 

[zekko]

A case about the state of free speech on university campuses and about labelled a transphobe. It's about using gender pronouns other than “he” or “she"

"It"?

 

[marmel75]

Truth always come out of the mouth of kids Lol.

She's is factual.

What does linemen even mean... Use contructionworker! Lol.

Kids are sensible to these things and she does point a fact.... Women are pickup space in the construction/transport business.... So if you see a woman on site... Why use the Word "men"

In the French language, we could say to little girl... When there is a Féminine (female) and Masculin (male)... The male noun takes priority... Thus "linemem" .. You would need to have 2 more women to make it "linewomen".

Where i live people are starting to challenge that.. To have gender neutral words/noun/grammar.. And inclue both male/female noun

The same reason woman and women have man and men in it...its not sexist, its just how the language is

 

[ChristopherColumbus]

The language point is important. The generic use of 'man' serves to show men and women have a common nature.... that man and woman are not irreconcilably different. It is this fundamental difference that leads to ideologies on both sides with their conception of the 'other'.

Two in one, and one in two. Logic stumbles on this, but so much for logic. It is limited.

 

[The Diver]

"It"?

'they' or 'ze' and 'zir', used by some as alternatives to 'she' or 'he' transgender.

 

[zekko]

The same reason woman and women have man and men in it...its not sexist, its just how the language is

It's like the old Bill Cosby joke:
God created Eve, and showed her to Adam.
And he said "Whoa, man!".

 

[Bible_Belt]

The language point is important. The generic use of 'man' serves to show men and women have a common nature.... that man and woman are not irreconcilably different. It is this fundamental difference that leads to ideologies on both sides with their conception of the 'other'.

That silly little b!tch can't even spell the word right. It's supposed to be "womyn," so that womyn never have to even look at those ugly, oppressive, 'EM-EE-EN' letters.

 

[zekko]

It's like the old Bill Cosby joke:
God created Eve, and showed her to Adam.
And he said "Whoa, man!".

And then he roofied her.