Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio has forced a construction crew to stop working after workers put up a warning sign reading “Men Working.” According to the report below, the college declared that the sign was “sexist and non-inclusive” and had to be removed before any further work resumed.
A female college employee complained that she found the sign offensive. Sinclair’s director of public information Adam Murka explained that the college takes “quite seriously” its “deep commitment to diversity. I am not sure that this particular battle reinforces the serious nature of that commitment. I do think that the construction company should go with gender neutral signs like “Construction Zone” but the necessity of stopping such work over such a sign seems rather over the top to me. The concern may be that “construction zone” does not remind drivers of the presence of workers and “workers working” is a bit awkward.
What do you think?
Source: Daily Mail
AY, Nobody has expressed being offended yet. I think this case is just too blatantly stupid for the usual suspects to express outrage..yet anyway! It’s still early.
Personkind should get books like the Bible rewritten to take the sex out of God.
If She made personkind in Her own image, where did the man bits come from?
Or is She hismaphrodite?
Hey, dredd and nick…. You better apologize for your inappropriate statements…. Your not being PC today……
Nick,
I’m unsure if they still use prison labor…. The counties use inmates….. But I was referring to the ginormous road construction projects….
I’ve a friend that owns a place called “Three City Blocks” in Alabama….they tried to use the prison labor but had two inmates pass out the first day…. She said that how much the states immigration policy has effectively curtailed the running of the property…..and they wish it’d be reversed….. Btw…. It’s over 30k acres….. Thought the name was funny….
orolee, Blauw, Yes they do. Look what happened when Fluke took on old p.c. hater Limbaugh, he lost.
orolee, you’re right or course. The construction industry’s a tough nut to crack. Over time, women have striven to enter it’s domain, quite often only to be relegated to tokens and, on road projects, usually flaggers. I suspect that when they actually got construction jobs the pay was not comparable. I also suspect that those women who eventually cracked into the field would not be about to complain about the sexist nature of signs very loudly. Some might. Truth is that it is perhaps easier to see the daily “reinforcement” you allude to in a blatant sign for a road crew than in the subtle ways of the white collar world. I don’t really know. It’s insidious anywhere it exists
David Blauw: “The young see things new, and lacking years of acceptance, submission, compliance, they notice imbalance.”
Amen
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/12/03/1274581/easy-bake-oven/
AY, In Texas along the state roads it could say, “Inmate Working.” When I worked in Leavenworth I could alway tell the inmates from Texas because they called me, “Boss Man.” Now, a lot of southern inmates call a guard, “Boss”, but only Texans used “Boss Man.”
Nick,
I think I’m hearing you right….
Well in Texas at least…. We could put “homie working”…,
nick,
Common sense for sure though I’m really liking Dredd’s HOMOS WORKING
Dredd, Your wit is refreshing. Maybe it would cause pc heads to explode.
Darren Smith,
I see you know your Gaelic. 😉
Dredd,
You need a time out….lol
orolee, “The value of the act is its spotlight on the near invisibility of cultural reinforcement of –ism’s”. ……Excellent
The young see things new, and lacking years of acceptance, submission, compliance, they notice imbalance. Kudos to young minds and perceptions.
Anyone see an imbalance if all the signs were changed to Women Working.
Workers Ahead, Work Zone, Slow Down. Absolutely fine with me.
Women and men are both homo sapiens.
It would only add two letters if it were changed to HOMOS WORKING.
How lucky that we live in a country with so little to worry about that this is considered important.
Nick,
You’re gonna get it soon I’m sure…. But you’re a protagonist at heart…. Some like other forms of pleasure…. But hey…. What floats your boat…. Or ….
–ism’s are insidious and damn hard, if not impossible, to root out because they are constantly being reinforced in subtle ways. This one little incident with the sign is next to meaningless — but it happens hundreds of times to each person each day but almost never noticed.
Yeah, the university’s action “makes for a nice sensational headline grabber,” which is the sort of thing an institution devoted to not the mere education of its student but their edification should be about: exploit a teachable moment.
The value of the act is its spotlight on the near invisibility of cultural reinforcement of –ism’s.
This is pc college culture on full display. I’m heartened by the number of folks here who reject it. The only quality really needed to see the absurdity is good ol’ fashioned common sense.