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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You are absolutely right.
I feel the need to vomit!
Maybe we should have SISTERS HOOKIN signs in some areas to equalize everything.
because
workers working sounds dumb
and half the time, they’re will be 4 people standing around watching one person work
people working?
humans working?
bags of water working?
No, they can't. I've seen too many examples where women can't cut it. They don't do the heavy stuff, men do.
““Women can do anything.” Prove it.”
We have a female crewman err crewperson at work, and she can more than handle herself.
The first week on the job, we had her using the 98 pound pneumatic jackhammer and the rock drill. She was better using them than some of the guys.
I’m smart though, I use the hydraulic breaker on my CAT 305 mini-ex 😁
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.
Usually you would need to add the question mark at the end...?
That would work!
In the red light districts the signs could read “girls working”. Then the homosexual prostitutes could bitch about it.
I thought they were womxn now.
With the education in schools today I doubt very much if an 11 and nine-year-old can even read the sign
I guess there are womxyn now as well as womxxn, hey? Do the little girls suspect that too?
I truly hope this is fake.
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