"help! help! I'm being oppressed!" oooh, has anyone considered that the signs are themselves offended by being changed? will no-one think of the signs feelings?

I'll be brutal, and say that I won't mistake her for either a worker or a woman. This hypocrite - and I admit I'm making an assumption, but it's born of experience - isn't buying into being called, "Hey, Buddy" or using the same Port-O-Let on the roadside. I'll say that to her face.

If you need a sign, you're invisible as an individual. The most effective people we have at work at Savannah River Site have no office decorations, and a solid word-of-mouth reputation. This ruckus tells me there's nothing good about her being on the job.

Now, I appreciate her work on behalf of the GLBT workforce.

Wait - what?

Perhaps they need a sign saying "Warning: Overly sensitive and letigious drama queen ahead"

Is it just me, or are there more maliciously stupid people roaming the countryside of late?

Someone needs to slap some sense into this bitch. And if that doesn't work, beat her till she can't talk any more.

I'm in a fine mood today - Fred "I'm a stupid motherfucker" Phelps has decided that his bastard church is going to go picket Tony Snow's funeral.

Can we just kill these people and be done with it? Please??

I blame modern medicine. Far too many of us should have died as an infant.

Here we go, this is nothing more than a publicity stunt for Ms. Cynthia Good. Now she can parade herself as a defender of woman anywhere. Talk about a leech

This timbit of news validates something for me; it is not about lack of common sense we should worry about but lack of spine. How hard he would had been to charge the "Lady" with a ticket for defacing the panels instead of buying new ones?

I've seen the occasional "novelty" sign that's apparently supposed to be attention-getting. They are supposed to look like they were written in crayon by a kid, and come in both "my daddy works here" and "my mommy works here" varieties.

But I don't think I've seen them for a couple of years.

I have no real problem with this woman requesting rationally that the signs be changed. It doesn't sound like a huge expense, and maybe over a couple of years, with the backing of her fellow female construction workers, she would have succeeded. I prefer big, dramatic efforts be reserved for things that matter just a little bit more.

Great! Now all you have to do to avoid endangering their lives is wake people up to the fact that "workers ahead" translates to "men working". Christ!

And talk about feminists ruining the fun, Amy. The paper last weekend had an article about construction workers not calling out to women. I may be crazy but I miss that. It was flattering. Sigh, well, at least I know it's not because I'm getting older. I can accept a compliment. Especially coming from some beefcake working hard for a living. (Ah, fond memories of the construction worker I once dated.)

And the example the paper used for an inappropriate comment: a worker called out in Spanish to a lady with a dog that he liked to be the dog led on her leash. She laughed when another worker translated but then complained and now they can't say anything. I thought it was funny. At least, I knew that wasn't you!

Christ, I guess the silver lining is that we know the men left who ain't afraid of being men are real man.

I'm absolutely offended that Cynthia Good only added a "WO" before "MEN". How dare she only go half way! What she clearly needed to do was change the "E" to a "Y", thus spelling "WOMYN". :-)

The comments on the AJC article are priceless.
And the last thing I will ever think about when I think of Cynthia Good is Pink. She should change the name of her magazine to Whiney Jackass. Or perhaps just Hole.

Well, here in Alabama, the signs just say "ROAD WORK AHEAD". Nothing about people at all. And that's the ultimate goal, isn't it?

(Yes, that was sarcasm. And here's some more: The signs used to say "ROAD CONSTRUCTION AHEAD". I still haven't decided if (1) "construction" was too big a word, or (2) the signs were changed so as not to imply that any actual progress was being made.)

Okay I understand that gender relations aren't exactly perfect but damn. With all the issues that women face (and many of them are legite) this is the best she could come up with?

Damn....just....damn....

"with the backing of her fellow female construction workers, she would have succeeded." MonicaP

The impression that I get is she NOT ACTUALLY a construction worker, just offended on behalf of her gender. Sounds like Amy might be offended right back, heh.

Is this chick for real? Is this honestly the biggest complaint she has? If so, I want her life. Sounds damn near perfect.

Like Monica P above, I have no problem with the signs being changed over time; as the old "Men Working" signs wear out, they can be replaced with "Workers Ahead" signs. Additional cost would probably be minimal or nonexistent. No drama in doing it that way, however.

The big question, of course, is what to do about that silhouette picture of the guy digging. Do we need to put a skirt on him? Or how about, we keep the guy digging, and add another female figure with a megaphone, supervising? Would that be okay?

Ms. Good should refocus herself on getting more women into the cutting-edge world of road construction.

97.6% of people killed by stupid motorists exceeding the work zone speed limits are men. Time for a change!

If she's successful with her sign campaign, we can change the word "asphalt" to "asshat".

" I suggest something along the lines of a big asterisk -- * -- to indicate a big rectum."

you owe me a new monitor. and a cup of coffee.

J.D., based on our previous thread, I'd suggest "hole of no particular color".

^ huh? which previous thread?

I thought that phrase was brilliant. It's a shame that gutsy and hilarious articulations like this aren't allowed on newspapers.

I will never look at an asterisk the same way again.

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And a week prior in Atlanta an immigrant Muslim father strangled his daughter to death in an “honor killing.” Bet brave Ms. Good is going to make a stink over that. Not.

"I blame modern medicine. Far too many of us should have died as an infant."

All of our problems stem from the unenlightened immigration policies of the American Indian.

Geez, your tax dollars at work. If I lived in Atlanta I'd be more annoyed with the idiot politicians for caving in to this silliness. If Cynthia wants to be fair she could maybe pay to have 2.4% of the signs changed.

PINK Magazine: a publication that focuses on complete twits. Hell, I'm Googling them right now - I feel the need to share my disgust.

Hey, Amy, on the subject of hypersensitivity blaming others for insensitivity, did you happen to see this?

Apparently, the term "black hole" is racist. And all this time, I thought it was so-named because it absorbs all portions of visible light (and the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum) and reflects none. You know, the definition of "black."

Apparently, angel food cake and devil's food cake are also racist, because if it's white, that means it's good and if it's brown, that means it's evil. I thought angel food cake was named because it's light and airy (and fat-free), while devil's food cake is excessively fatty, even by confectioner's standards, made with butter and melted chocolate, instead of cocoa. Consequently, a wicked indulgence.

Seems to me that there's a dilemma, then, concerning chocolate angel food cake.

Oooh, cake.

Blackboard, blacktop, whiteout (office supply and blizzard), blackhead, whitehead, white hat, black hat, whitewash, blackout (electrical and head injury), White Castle, tighty-whiteys, black eye, Blackfoot, white pine, black pudding, white rice, blancmange, film noir. All racist. What a world (sigh).

Thanks, Patrick...blogged on that the other day. Just nuts!

What's with all the PINK anyway with these nutcakes? Shouldn't they be boycotting the labeling of females with the color pink then? Just saying. (Mainly since I hate pink and love blue.)

Political correctness has turned our culture into a whiner-thon 24/7.

I saw this in a book that I was reading again. It is talking about a future time and place, but change a few words and it could fit for the near future (Flag in Exile by David Weber):

There'd been a time when the Republic of Haven—not "the People's Republic," but simply "the Republic"—had inspired an entire quadrant. It had been a bright, burning beacon, a wealthy, vastly productive renaissance which had rivaled Old Earth herself as the cultural and intellectual touchstone of humanity. Yet that glorious promise had died. Not at the hands of foreign conquerors or barbarians from the marches, but in its sleep, victim of the best of motives. It had sacrificed itself upon the altar of equality. Not the equality of opportunity, but of outcomes. It had looked upon its own wealth and the inevitable inequities of any human society and decided to rectify them, and somehow the lunatics had taken over the asylum. They'd transformed the Republic into the People's Republic—a vast, crazed machine that promised everyone more and better of everything, regardless of their own contributions to the system. And, in the process, they'd built a bureaucratic Titan locked into a headlong voyage to self-destruction and capable of swallowing reformers like gnats.