Green Cross Code.

A random thought from the ever inventive, if quirky, mind of Carolyn Frost regarding pedestrian crossings..

Why in these days of diversity is the symbol on a pedestrian crossing that of a green man ?. Surely this is somewhat sexist. What about replacing it with a green woman ?. then again should one go further and replace it with a symbol representing a green transsexual, although what that might look like is best left to the imagination.

Nice one Carolyn, but I might add why does the symbol have to be green. I would have thought that in some of the Gay districts of our major cities you could have a pink symbol depicting two blokes holding hands. Then why should the Black community be left out. You could have a symbol of a dreadlocked Rasta. Moving on to Muslim areas you could have a woman in a Burqua but you would have to make sure that if you had some chap wearing a turban and a beard it was not taken to be an image of the Prophet or you might get a lot of pedestrian crossing signs being incinerated by the likes of Al-Majiroun. The same might well happen if the Pagans saw a sign representing the Wicker Man. In Scotland you could have tartan crossing signs representing men in kilts. In Wales a sheep might be appropriate.

Perhaps we are better sticking with the green man and following the Green Cross code..