Pink Plaques

[Davros]

I think it's a bad idea to honour influential women with pink plaques. Does it matter, is it a good idea? I'd like to know what others think
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.standard.co.uk/news/london/feminists-see-red-over-plan-for-pink-plaques-to-honour-famous-women-a4073891.html%3famp

What the hell?

Why can't exceltional women have blue plaques?

I see near the end there is an issue with sex imbalance in the blue ones
So get rid of that

What this says is that women need special ones because they aren't good enough for the normal ones
And many men and boys as we know will automatically switch off and not be interested as soon as they see the colour

It makes sex to separate some things by sex, but to have default original plaques go to mainly men and then add some pink ones wtf. It's it because the original ones are blue? Then those ones become for men then?

It's fucking ridiculous.

Blue plaques WERE well recognised and for everyone

Not any more apparently
Presumably because they are blue,,?

Will the blue plaques for women be replaced and guarantee that pretty much half the population won't read them any more

The news item I saw said that women represent 40% of blue plaques. Considering you have to have been dead for ten(?) years to be eligible for a blue plaque, I was surprised it is so high. I think it's great to set out to honour women but I think the choice of pink is infantile

Last year, English Heritage launched a campaign backed by Dame Judi Dench to address the imbalance of men and women represented on blue plaques after a survey found only 14 per cent of the markers commemorate women.

According to the link 14% not 40% of blue plaques are for women.

I misheard. I was surprised!

So correct the sex imbalance in existing blue ones which are well known and already got everyone

Adding pink ones as women aren't, what, good enough to get blue ones is a dick move. And that is how it will be seen. And many men and boys won't bother to read them.

And then over time women will have to have pink ones and the %blue 'proper' ones for women will be tiny and support the idea that women need a special category as hardly any have done anything of note

They really haven't thought this through I think

and I didn't read my own link! I saw an item on the news and googled a link without reading it. Oh dear!

Pink plaques used to indicate notable gay people (mostly men). The Gay Men's Press published The Pink Plaque Guide to London about a million years ago, circa 1986, before Stonewall Ltd was founded. I imagine that the plaques were imaginary - ie the book provided a sort of walking tour of information, and you had to visualise the pink plaques appearing in a better future. But perhaps activists put up cardboard ones. This was when the colour was used to evoke the pink triangle of the Holocaust, which I assume is how Pink News chose its title. www.amazon.co.uk/Pink-Plaque-Guide-London/dp/0854490264?tag=mumsnetforum-21