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Fairer Sex Lights Up Traffic

A Spanish town council has vowed to banish sexism from street signage by demanding half of all road signs and traffic lights show female figures with skirts and ponytails.

Fuenlabrada, south of the capital Madrid, will replace old and damaged road signs and traffic lights within a year.

“In this way the sexism which until now has seen only masculine figures appear in traffic signals will be brought to an end,” the town council said in a statement.

(MX, Monday 13 November 2006)

Feminists: Women don’t always wear skirts, you know. That would send the wrong message to the society.

Hairstylists: Ewww…like, ponytails are so 1984?

Street Signage Manufacturers: Economical…NOT!

7-year-old male passerby: Mum, is this like the girls’ territory? Gross…

Fashion consultant: No offence but a-line skirt is so last summer…

Emo fellas: The old road signs died. Thrown away, like useless paper tissues. Drenched away in rain and mud, bled from loneliness, stripped from the glory they used to know. It’s a cold, cold world. People just don’t get them.

Fraternity boys: Dude…awesome…what? Whatever…

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