Who’s Paying?
(I got this on an email list. If you want to look up the story, all the information is below.)
Neil Boortz is always talking about the Atlanta Journal-Constitution being a liberal paper. I don’t read it, but here’s an example of the kind of left-wing idiocy that has real consequences:
‘Men At Work’ signs to disappear in Atlanta
Decision follows complaints by magazine editorBy ERIC STIRGUS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/09/08In 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.
What could possibly be wrong with this? Why, those awful signs hurt peoples’ feelings! What’s wrong with it (other than it’s just stupid) is what they don’t tell you here:
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.
See what they did? They reported the per sign cost, which makes it sound like there’s next to no cost involved! So do they tell us either approximately how many signs there are, or what the approximate total cost of this feel-good idiocy is?
No.
So what else do they tell us? Not much, other than that these idiots are on a crusade to force everybody across the US to pay up to change the signs so their feelings won’t be hurt:
“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.
Did she do it? Good replied by complaining about the signs.
Good fired off letters complaining about the signs to Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and Gov. Sonny Perdue.
State transportation officials said they will ask contractors to remove signs specifying just men are working at a construction site.
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.”
FOAD.
class factotum:
Lord have mercy. If this woman wants to waste my tax dollars, why doesn’t she do something useful, like require free ice cream on Fridays or something like that?
July 13, 2008, 11:05 pm