[Foundation-l] For your amusement

[Lars Aronsson]

Gerard Meijssen wrote:

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6206084.stm

The Swedish traffic sign is popularly named "herr gårman" (Mr. 
Walker, but also a pun on "here you can walk") and "fru gårman" is 
simply Mrs. Walker, 
http://images.google.com/images?q=fru%20g%C3%A5rman

You can get similar examples from (East) Germany by searching for 
Ampelfrau, http://images.google.com/images?q=ampelfrau

See also the article http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampelfrau

The category http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Crosswalk
is clearly gender biased.  I see no women on street signs there.



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