Green man or person?

[Tiddybiddy247]

I'm probably going to get crucified for this but I'm asking out of genuine curiosity and here for answers as it were.

Was in town this morning getting ready to cross the road with my toddler and I always say to him "let's wait for the green man" and then we shout "there he is let's go!" And cross the road. This morning another mum arrived next to us and heard me and gave me a kind a dirty look. She turns to her daughter and goes "we need to wait for the green person don't we? " But like with emphasis on the person. I didn't know what to think 🤔 on the one hand she has a point, it could very well be a woman in trousers, but it just doesn't look very feminine... also I've always called it the green man. I suppose I'm terribly old fashioned to be going around assuming genders?

It’s a green man.

Ditto 😂

What about 'those tax bastards'? Works for me. Equal opportunities too.

1. I was always taught to wait if the man was flashing! With the advent of Puffins and the death of Pelicans, he doesn't flash any longer.

2. Boston, Lincs:

I say green man!! Ffs what's wrong with people?? Postman can be postie but green man is green man!

Green pedestrian as an alternative

*I'll get my coat

I made BDSM gingerbread people once. I had great fun with the icing.

Also, I will never be able to go to Berlin again now Ampelman's hat difference has been pointed out.

Especially if you picture that face just slowly forming in a hedge and staring coldly at you. Muhahahaha 😆

I quite like this!!

This reminds me of when I was young. My mum would try and be really PC, having previously been a bit of a classist snob.

She took to calling the bin men the 'bin people'. I always cringed when she said it. I was like 'Mum, none of them are female. None of them have ever been female. Why can't you just say MEN?'

Jesus, who gives a shit??

So was I 😆

If she really cared about her child’s educational development she would refer to the green light that is shaped to represent the outline of a human which indicates it is safe for real people to cross the road once they have ascertained that all approaching vehicles have abided by the traffic light instructing them to stop. Children need to understand the difference between images and reality and the importance of safety vigilance.

You probably didn’t have time to explain that to her, but her child will probably be ok.

Damn I’m sarcastic and grouchy today 🫣

Here’s the green man who’s had his leg amputated to become a red man.

this.

First post nails it.

But you often can't tell if an animal is male or female eg a woodlice and I've noticed around me that the default is always to gender then as male. So I say she as the default as my girls are growing up in a world where the default is always male and do it themselves. If I know it's a male lion obviously I wouldn't do that. And yes I say green person and I don't care what others thinks about that. It's not about the green man it's about the fact that the vast majority of books and TV characters and gendering that my children experience are by default male and I want to do what I can to counter that so they don't think that to be female is to be on the margins.

I voted YABU for giving this a second's thought. Who gives a shit what some random woman says?

Oh is that figure green? I hadn't noticed I don't see colour

DD is now 12, but it's always Green Bunny thanks to an episode of Bing.

His preferred pronouns are he//him.

when talking about actual people specific roles - e.g, doctor, police officer, fire fighter etc I absolutely understand the purpose of not defaulting to male, because we obviously want girls to know that they can grow up and take that route also, go for it, equal opportunities in the workplace should be the norm everywhere etc etc.
a traffic signal light though?
nope, no point - it can stay a green man because regardless of sex, she’s never going to be one, so I couldn’t care less what the default is!

Did you tell her to fuck off ?
Jesus.... it's the same nonsense as "birthing people" or whatever therm they used now.

I think we've got peak woke, the mum probably thinks she's bang on but actually she was just being rude to a stranger for no reason at all.

We were in the US recently too - I changed it to walking man - also gave no thought to the possibility of it being a woman!