Gender Impact

Gender Impact

Errr... who actually makes this road signs, would this sign have a different message / impact if the sign had a man holding a kid's hand instead of a woman (holding the kid)?

Does the woman icon make it easier to give a feeling / idea / message of an older person having to assist kids when crossing the road?  

Does women take a better care of kids that men do?

  

If so, God bless all single moms.....

 

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18h44 Wednesday
13, June
2007
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  1. NguJaz

    indeed

  2. heartwarmer

    err...why do you assume that the person pictured...the image of the older person is a woman? It could be a man wearing a dress. It could be a man wearing a long shirt.
    It could be a crossdressing man.

    And what makes you think the smaller person in the picture is a child. It could be a midget...

    Do you get my point?

    Lemon

    I get your point... right on point but I don't think midgets will agree with you when you say they can't cross the road and that crossdressers are kind and helpful enough to give them a hand....

    I get your point though!

  3. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

    sure, in that case....

    "If so, God bless all single moms..... transsexuals and Cross dressers."

    * So what you're saying - the man / woman icons found on toilet doors could also be 2 toilets for women only... 1 for women wearing dresses the other women in pants...

    Or the toilets could be for men only... 1 for men wearing pants and the other for transsexual or cross-dressers !!!

    Hmm, heartwarmer?

  4. noidSyStems

    .....Ok .... Deeep!

  5. lebogang nkoane

    hai... this 'story' keeps changing... even the title.... mara... the symbolism of the road sign to me is close to 'school kids'....

    As in there will be natural person's crossing the road, and they might have a guide with them, in the sense that an older person guiding a younger person to cross the road.

    I see no female, I see no mother,,, not even a midget...

  6. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

    Errr... change is good comrade. No female? - Arguable, but i see a dress. No midget? - I agree with on you on that one.

    viva!

  7. heartwarmer

    No maan, my point is that it's just a freakin roadside. Stop freakin nit/knit-pickin'. Should they rather have had a mommy and a daddy (stick man with dress and stick man with pants) together holding the baby (stick person shorter than the other two).
    But then the gay people of the world would ask - why not two women (stick women as portrayed above) or two men (not portrayed above).
    Next thing you know, everybody wants to be represented on the road sign. Lets be passive about this one...before we start a war

  8. heartwarmer

    Actually, sorry...nit/knit-pick away. Its your freakin right to. My apologies.

  9. heartwarmer

    Oh, I can't understand why you people can't see the midget :-)

  10. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

    Ahhh... heartwarmer, no need to apologise!

    your views + my views - sometimes its cool not to see things the same / or to agree on the same thing..... cos' thats when we start learning something from each other.

    Sho

  11. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

    Midget?... maybe our vision is on 200% "Zoom" - we tend to see something twice its actual size thats why we think the midget is a kid.

  12. ªßè®

    Siamese twins maybe?, but then again if went through all the troubled legal way to obtain your "driver's" then it'll make sense, as for others: One day it'll make sense.

  13. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

    ...makes sense to me. and to the other comrades "one-day-is-one-day".

  14. Makhaya

    mokokoma, thank you for the welcome note. truly appreciated. and i like this pic and your views on it, dont have much to share, but ive enjoyed reading the comments.

  15. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

    Ola, makhaya... its a pleasure. now lets make things happen!

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