Posted by: Sister Toldjah on July 10, 2008 at 2:43 pm
A story of political correctness gone crazy in Atlanta:
In the battle of the sexes, women’s magazine editor Cynthia Good said this was a skirmish she had to fight.
Across Atlanta they stood, orange signs with black letters that read “Men At Work” or “Men Working Ahead.”
Sometimes, the signs stood next to women working alongside the men.
Good demanded Atlanta officials remove the signs and last week, Atlanta Public Works Commissioner Joe Basista agreed.
Score one for gender equality, Good said Wednesday.
“They get it,” Good said about the city in a telephone interview.
Public Works officials are replacing 50 “Men Working” with signs that say “Workers Ahead.” It will cost $22 to cover over some of the old signs and $144 to buy new signs, said Public Works spokeswoman Valerie Bell-Smith said.
Good, founding editor of Atlanta-based PINK Magazine, a publication that focuses on professional women, said she’s not stopping with Atlanta.
“We’re calling on the rest of the nation to follow suit and make a statement that we will not accept these subtle forms of discrimination,” said Good, 48.
Good pressed the issue after Atlanta police came to her office last month on a complaint that she spray painted “wo” onto a “Men At Work” sign.
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Atlanta union leader Gina Pagnotta said some women employees of Atlanta Public Works complained about these signs years ago.
“It is a little bit bias to say ‘Men Working,’ ” said Pagnotta, president of the Professional Association of City Employees. “Women are working, too.”
This is as stupid as the whole manhole vs. personhole cover “debate.” Don’t these self-important nitwits have anything better to do?
Will they hold up “Slackers Ahead” when they are on break ?
Another example, I am afraid, of political correctness run amok in our country and guess who has to pay the price? The average American just trying to do his best to earn a living to put food on his family’s table and to put a roof over his children’s heads. What unnecessary foolishness!
I forwarded the story to a friend, and he sent this back:
Hey, if you’re going to do it, you mightas well take it to the logical, albeit stupid conclusion.
Why can’t we all just assume “man” indicates the short form of “mankind (and/or representative individuals thereof)” and be done with the entire problem for FREE…
Oh, wait, that would be asking for ENTIRELY too much maturity from “certain representative individuals thereof” wouldn’t it?”
LOL – that would make too much sense, Craig
In a word, NO. Not everyone can be a self-important nitwit. That takes constant practice, and leaves no time for productive labors.
If the city of Atlanta would like to recoup some of the expense incurred by having to ditch their signs, I believe most of us would be willing to buy one provided they added the word NOT to it. Just the thing to put in front of that co-worker’s desk…
This is not the stupidest example of PC run amok I’ve seen this week. No, that sad honor goes to the morons in Texas who got their panties in a bunch over the racist term “black hole.”
I swear, that Steven Hawking and Carl Sagan were such bastards.
And you thought it couldn’t get any more ridiculous?!?!?
I weep for the future.
So I suppose we can longer jew’em down on the price of cake mixes, well he/they certainly is/are inspirational for being born an insipid sponge.