Approximately
50 sets of traffic lights around London’s busy Trafalgar Square had their
‘walk’ and ‘green man’ images replaced with seven different same-sex and
transgender symbols last June to coincide with- and show support for- an annual Gay Pride festival. Transport for
London’s gesture of good will to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and ‘trans
diversity’ crowd in England’s capital was supposed to be a temporary measure,
but the symbols are still in use, and are confusing to some day-trippers and
tourists according to Britain’s express.co.uk.
The solitary ‘green man,’ who has been featured on UK
traffic lights since 1969, has now been joined by a male partner or replaced
with two green women holding hands. Other lights feature pairs of female
and male gender symbols, or a transgender symbol (which combines elements of
both sexes). Some pedestrians have complained that they no longer know
which way to turn while crossing the central London streets, and if you look at
the transgender symbol in particular, you can’t blame them, as it is
essentially a series of arrows pointing in different directions. But, maybe
they will all eventually “see the light.”
Mr. Smith, a father of
two from Preston, Lancashire, said: “When the light went green I saw the two
female symbols and I thought, ‘Oh right, so my missus can cross with my little
girl but what do me and the boy do?’”
I imagine
Mr. Smith continuing: “Then my son asked me, ‘Dad, what am I supposed to do?’ and I told him… just don’t go straight son.
Just don’t go straight.”
This forever changes the way I’ll think of the
phrase “out like a light.”
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