Posted on 03/05/2021 8:22:32 AM PST by TigerClaws
CARMEL, Ind — “'Men working' signs are a problem,” Blair Babione told the Carmel City Council Monday night.
Blair, 11, and her 9-year old sister, Brienne, came to the meeting after an invitation from council president Sue Finkam.
The girls had recently sent letters to Finkam about “men working” signs they had noticed recently in their neighborhood.
‘Why is this sign here? Why does it say, ‘men working’ when we’ve seen plenty of women doing construction?’” they asked.
Leslie, the girls’ mom, said her daughters wanted to know. When she couldn’t give them an answer, they decided to research it.
“We got on the computer and found how it was not supposed to be here anymore, and we went from there,” Blair said.
“We looked and found this has been against federal law since 1988,” Leslie said. “I was a kid when this law came about and now, here I am, a mom of kids and these signs are still here.”
Blair and Brienne decided to do something about it, sending letters to their local lawmakers.
“Women can do anything, and it’s not right to have it just say ‘men,’” Brienne said.
“When little girls see them, they might think, ‘oh, I can’t be a construction worker, but I want to,’ and seeing a little girl feel like that makes me sad,” Blair told the council.
“You may be thinking ‘well, I don’t really care,’” Brienne said. “But a little girl might want to do construction, and she will see the sign and think, ‘I can’t do construction because the sign says ‘men.’’”
“We felt like if we didn’t change it, nothing would happen,” Blair said.
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They want to impress their Mommy!
That lady with the worn out P*ssyHat.
It’s just as expected, an upper-middle class lily-white community. Probably didn’t like mean tweets. Probably lots of “Hate has no home here” signs.
I am sure women are running the jackdesk and other dangerous tools
“Why does it say, ‘men working’ when we’ve seen plenty of women doing construction?’” “
No, what you see is them holding the road signs to slow traffic.
And you don’t see them outdoors much at an Indiana job site in February at 7am.
Uh-huh.
Idiot parents, no doubt.
Besides, “Men Working” seems more accurate based on my observations. The people I see at construction sites doing the actual hard labor are men.
Maybe she’ll soon be swimming in student loan debt and it will never be forgiven.
The mental illness and closed minded thinking placed on these kids is so sad. The parents must be ridiculous people.
And an 11 and 9 year olds have zero business speaking to the city council. They are too young and stupid to have anything of value to add, and they do not have to pay for wasted money for new signs.
Human shields.
I have little interest in what a 20-year-old, bereft of wisdom, has to say or what they think about, well, anything ... much less what interests a couple little girls. Apparently some people do care.
They are so brave! /s
It is a sign of our times that people are relatively rich enough they enough time/money to worry about stuff like this, instead of keeping food in their bellies and a roof over their heads.
>>> ‘Why is this sign here? Why does it say, ‘men working’ when we’ve seen plenty of women doing construction?’” they asked.
TBH, I don’t see “plenty” of women doing construction. Research says 10%, but that includes office workers. I would say the number is closer to 1%.
You’ve had the same reaction to those too?
Aside: If there were one in my neighborhood I’d carefully paint a comma, to make it grammatically correct to intentions. When the city made a fuss I’d tell then the “Let’s eat grandma” v “Let’s eat, grandma” joke.
Another staged Greta-in.
How cute. We need to decide policy on the feelings of 9 years olds.
Well, we actually do. That is the emotional age of the average DemonRAT.
Put up only idiots allowed signs outside of legislature chambers.
Leftists delude themselves into thinking they’re smarter than average.
While millions of Americans work their hardest to climb up their own rectums (recta?) the rest of the world, and China in particular works their hardest to contain their laughter at our inane, pathetic helplessness.
It’s more kind that a sign advertising “Donut Consumption Next 5 Miles”
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