Austria finally gets LGBT traffic lights

[Lolretadin]

The red hand, green hand just wasn't cutting it?

Winter, you need to understand, it made people without fingers feel excluded.

Edit*
Well, shit, that joke was done twice before me on the same page. QQ

[Hey There Guys its Metro]

Nice, congrats to people who take their affliction way too serious!

[Maxilian]

We did what now?

Edit: Ah, yes. Found it. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...-10244179.html

It's in preparation for the stupid Eurovision Song Contest thingy or something like that.

Oh that explains it, IMHO i find these kind of... well... pointless, these's mostly a waste of money, but who paid for it? the goverment? or a private institution? if it was an institution, then... GOOD FOR YOU! (do whatever you want with your money), if not... well...... why?

[prwraith]

Somebody lend me their rope, I can't deal with this world anymore, time to off myself.

[Maxilian]

Uh-huh. Well, maybe I don't always walk across the street with my significant other. Why is it being forced on me to do this?

or... you just don't have a significant other.

Oh wait!, i'm the one who doesn't have a significant other...

*cries in middle of the street*

[Deleted]

if not... well...... why?

It is just like all the other advertisement, stuff etc. for the song contest. Waste of money? Maybe. But not as much of a deal as the OP makes it look like.

[Korgoth]

After further reflection I am feeling very oppressed by all the thin privilege I am seeing in those traffic lights. Those male figures are practically sticks.

And dont get me started on the female version having dresses, which from that angle you know it cant be a cape!

[Cuthburt]

I think it's adorable, and I also think it's a waste of time and money.

As a gay person, I... can't ever recall a time when the "WALK/DON'T WALK" traffic signals offended me. I should really check my cis-centric pedestrian privilege, though.

[Altrec]

They're making far more money from the competition. And it's not pointless or banal when it helps begin a dialogue with people like you who seem to hate something for little to no reason. Does raising awareness for LGBT really hurt you so much?

It doesn't matter why they are doing it as it is still stupid. Raising awareness about LGBT issues happens all over the place to the point of being obnoxious. This is an absurd waste of time and money.

[Lysah]

We did what now?

Edit: Ah, yes. Found it. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...-10244179.html

It's in preparation for the stupid Eurovision Song Contest thingy or something like that.

Eurovision, homosexuality.

It checks out.

[the game]

They should make a white, male version of aunt jemima. There is not syrup that accurately represents white males on the bottle.

[Deleted]

They got cameras on top and will find ohhh surprise gay inclusive traffic lights prevent jaywalking.

Iam pondering why that could happen.

[Deleted]

The article linked is in another language and I'm not even going to go searching for this on Google.

I linked an English source on the first page. It explains it pretty well.

[Korgoth]

They should make a white, male version of aunt jemima. There is not syrup that accurately represents white males on the bottle.

Newman's Own?

[Kruncholyo]

Hopefully this doesn't increase the incidence of rear-end collisions.

badum-ching

[the game]

Newman's Own?

I see no pancake syrup on their site.

[Mayhem]

Oh, my... that's pretty fucking stupid. I don't think it was needed. Did someone actually complain about this?

Austrians complain about everything all the time. It´s quite hard to filter out what they really want.

This however is a publicity stunt. However it´s fun to watch the morons get into debates over this not realising how ignorable it is. Everyone with a brain really doesn´t give a shit.

[the game]

They did, it's in the shape of a hockey goalie:


Well, I guess there goes your racist rant for today. Better luck tomorrow. Not sure why race is even being brought up in a thread about LGBT traffic lights...

I'm still trying to figure out why we need LGBT traffice lights.

[Mayhem]

The red hand, green hand just wasn't cutting it?

We never had red hand, green hand, it´s always been a figure walking or standing.

[Deleted]

Austrians complain about everything all the time. It´s quite hard to filter out what they really want.

This however is a publicity stunt. However it´s fun to watch the morons get into debates over this not realising how ignorable it is. Everyone with a brain really doesn´t give a shit.

To be fair, our politicians do give us quite a few things to complain about.

I agree that this is a complete non-issue, though.