Atlantans I Hate: Cynthia Good
I love Atlanta. As a result I have a general bias for Atlantans. I just naturally assume that they're all as awesome as I am. Every now and again I have to face the facts that some Atlantans just suck. I hate these people.
You probably haven't heard of Cynthia Good before because she's the editor of a magazine you've never heard of that caters to a market you've never heard of. Her magazine, Pink, "focuses on professional women". And if I've picked up anything from hanging around professional women, it's that they have plenty of time to sit around and read about other professional women. But this is irrelevant. I don't hate Cynthia because of her obscure magazine. I didn't know of her, or hate her, until I read this AJC Article.
"Across Atlanta they stood, orange signs with black letters that read "Men At Work" or "Men Working Ahead." Sometimes, the signs stood next to women working alongside the men. Good demanded Atlanta officials remove the signs and last week, Atlanta Public Works Commissioner Joe Basista agreed. Score one for gender equality, Good said Wednesday."
You can award a point for Cynthia Good for wasting taxpayer money and also sullying the name of women's rights. Let's see if we can come up with a more logical sollution than paying $144 for new signs or $22 to adapt old signs.
1) Agree to not make any more "Men at Work" signs and as they get damaged, replace them with "Workers Ahead Signs". So now you're not spending any additional money and you're addressing the problem.
2) Figure out how much it would cost to replace the current signs. Realize that in some small way that it might be a biased statement and accept it. Replace new signs with the proper terminology as needed. Now take the money that you didn't use to replace the signs and spend it on job fairs for women or special training for females in high school. See what I did there? I addressed the issue that your magazine is supposed to handle. But instead of wasting government money to fix something that's no even offensive, I used that money to actually improve our society.
3) This really isn't a solution. But what's so bad about Men at Work. Sometimes I want a vegemite sandwich.
6 comments:
Wonder if Cynthia really would like to eliminate men :)!!!???
Gotta say that Cynthia is still super hot looking. I often see her about in Buckhead dressed in a short skirt and tight top etc. Considering her crusade for women to be taken seriously why dos she dress so sexy?
Couldn't agree more. This pissed me right off when I heard about it.
I wrote an article making very similar points. I think you managed to convey them a lot better than I did.
I'm from NYC . . .live in Atlanta . . . I like Atlanta . . . . Cynthia Good is so 1970's jeez get over it woman. . . . You sure your not from NYC ! She's a " YENTA " ! go check the "Urban Dictionary" for all Sons of the South !
its totally true... she is NOT hot in person...
she is a fake.. she doesnt shave under her arms(long wisps of black hair...) EWWW!!!! and she is very pretentious(sp?) and fridged. I know for a fact.. and her children are nuts, as is her husband.
"Your not from NYC?" Is that southern for "You're not from NYC?" YOUR is a possessive pronoun not the contraction of YOU and ARE! It's not that difficult to understand and use properly and it makes one seem so much more intelligent than one actually is! Gawwwwwwwwwwwwwd! Sorry... pet peeve of mine. :)
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