The Glow of the Patriarchy
Via Tim Blair, who has an eye for these things, some momentous news from the land down under:
A Yarra councillor wants to see more ‘green and red lady’ pedestrian signals installed across the inner city to promote gender equality.
Well, obviously. It’s what your taxes are for.
Yarra Council announced yesterday the silhouette of a woman would be installed at a new pedestrian crossing in Richmond. Greens Councillor Misha Coleman said the initiative was a “unique and rare” way to display gender equity and she would like to see Yarra known for its ‘green lady’ signals. “I’m a mother of two young children and we always talk about waiting for the ‘green man’,” Councillor Coleman said. “From when kids are young enough to walk they are given an instruction by a man and it has never occurred to any of us that that is inherently so biased.”
The suitably empowering and bias-free signal can be beheld here. Apparently, it depicts Mary Rogers, the second woman in Australia elected to local government, circa 1920. And clearly it’s a vast improvement over the heinously oppressive stick figure previously in use, and which no doubt crushed the spirits of small girls across Australia and steered them towards lives of grinding gender conformity.
After attending several International Women’s Day functions, Councillor Coleman said women were “blown away” by the ‘green lady’ initiative. “I think the main reason was because ‘why didn’t we think of that before and why have we accepted [that] the man tells us whether to walk or not’,” she said.
Those of you picturing aggrieved feminists expressing their defiance of the luminously oppressive male silhouette by randomly blundering into the road – and into oncoming traffic – are very bad people.
So we have to let Mary Poppins tell us when to walk?
…you know, I can’t even remember what the “walk/don’t walk” signs are here. It’s because I’m in my damn car, like an adult.
“Could you be any more insulting and thoughtless towards them?”
Oh good … a challenge!
Cheers
“Florida Man”, female variety:
http://www.clickorlando.com/pets/florida-woman-fights-to-keep-pet-alligator-rambo-at-home
We just need a spot of David Prowse to sort us out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIKhaYPZEuY
Via Instapundit, Rape Culture rears its head in the darndest places.
Rape Culture rears its head in the darndest places.
It bears repeating that the ladies at Jezebel and other professional moon howlers aren’t terribly interested in whether the shirt (or whatever it is this week) actually “promotes” some mythical “rape culture.” The low credibility of their claims and strained interpretations is, for them, beside the point. It’s chiefly about appearance, not realism. It’s signalling and social positioning. They’re letting others know how pious – and therefore superior – they are and outrage, even pretentious outrage, is how it’s done. And so to continually remind us of their elevated status, which they seem compelled to do, there must always be something to feign outrage over. Any crumb will do.
Any crumb will do.
Sadly, said crumbs do not include the hundreds of Christian and Yazidi women held as sex-slaves by certain factions of “The Religion of Peace.”
The latest video by Janice Fiamengo seems somewhat relevant.
“Sadly, said crumbs do not include…”
Well, becoming a vocal opponent of some things could be dangerous, so it’s much safer to rail against, accuse and spit venom at those who are unlikely to react in a threatening manner.