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I found an interesting article on Facebook and it's a start in the 'right' direction.
Target Removing Gender Based Signs from Its Stores.

Uncle Al

There are many 'comments on facebook about this article, the Pros outweigh the Cons.
This is my response to the naysayers -

"Finally! Someone is listening to their customers. I'm tired of 'Girls can wear and do anything' attitude
yet 'Boys must stay in their little box.' They're not allowed to 'think outside the box' and become the
creative person deep inside of their being. If a boy wants to wear a skirt, so what? A skirted garment
has been men's wear for generations, until Queen Victoria demanded that men wear Trews(trousers/pants).
The people complaining the most are the ones responsible for the "Stereo-typical Boy/Girl thinking"
Boys can play with dolls - doesn't make them gay. Girls can play with trucks - doesn't make them
weird either. Example: Many firefighters and police are women, in a 'typical' male job.
Men are nurses too, in a 'typical' female job. Let the kids be kids!
They'll be better adults for it!"

Uncle Al

Uncle Al wrote:I found an interesting article on Facebook and it's a start in the 'right' direction.
Target Removing Gender Based Signs from Its Stores.

Uncle Al

You know, I'm glad you brought this up. On my first skirted outing a few weeks ago, at the truck stop of all places, that was the first thing I noticed, the little faceless human on the door wearing a skirt, and the other that wasn't. Immediately I thought someone would make a wise crack about it, but nobody did. Still I can see one coming down the road.

After thinking about it, I concluded that this sign should bother women just as much as men who wear skirts, it stereotypes that a womans place is skirted and a man's places is not. Women after all have just as much right to wear pants as men do to wear skirts. It's just clothes!

I don't go for that at all. If they must use a symbol, why not use the symbol for male and female rather than a skirt and pants?

moonshadow wrote:If they must use a symbol, why not use the symbol for male and female rather than a skirt and pants?

The male and female symbols were originally symbols for Mars and Venus (the planets as well as the ancient gods). There is also a planetary symbol for Earth, so it would make sense to use that symbol for intergendered people.

pelmut wrote:

moonshadow wrote:If they must use a symbol, why not use the symbol for male and female rather than a skirt and pants?

The male and female symbols were originally symbols for Mars and Venus (the planets as well as the ancient gods). There is also a planetary symbol for Earth, so it would make sense to use that symbol for intergendered people.

Or to keep it even more simple... "M" for men. Tour. Tour upside down and it becomes a "W". They wouldn't even need to order two separate signs.

Facebook may like it, but the readers of the Channel 9 news site don't. Score so far: against 16, for 0. Lots of Daily Mail style ranting going on!

I don't understand the bit about green and yellow backgrounds in the toy department. Which sex were they for?

The newspaper story I saw this weekend suggested that clothing will still be divided by gender. "Gender labels will remain in the kid's clothing sections because of sizing and fit differences."
I just took a look at Target's site and this seems to be confirmed there.

skirtyscot wrote:Facebook may like it, but the readers of the Channel 9 news site don't. Score so far: against 16, for 0. Lots of Daily Mail style ranting going on!

Since Uncle Al made the original post, I was going to make a rude comment about Texas. But it turns out this channel 9 is in Chattanooga Tennessee.