Lights with a message

Wow! Is it really the way our society is evolving? Some countries have decided to change the existing 18-year-old traffic lights into more attractive ones.

In southern Taiwan, the little red and green traffic light men are now accompanied by their girlfriends. The green lights show a man holding his girlfriend´s hand and the red one features a man kneeling down to propose to his girlfriend.

The goal of this change is to make traffic lights more attractive, but… are they? And,in what sense? The message is quite confusing.

Other countries,which had decided to do something similar, changed their signs but to raise cultural awareness and nothing to do with gender bias. For example, in the Netherlands they featured Miffy, the local rabbit cartoon, as a tribute to his creator.

Changes are necessary and almost always awesome, but where is the limit?

Do men feel identified? And, what about women?

REMEMBER:

The English language is full of silent consonants which cause many difficulties to native speakers and non-native English learnersbecause the spelling is quite different from the pronunciation.

e.g. design, would, signs,

VOCABULARY

Kneel: go down on knees

Bias: preference, discrimination

Awesome: wonderful, remarkable, amazing