Even if I use money every day, I would never claim to be an economist or have the audacity to write an article about finance. Even if I use a phone every day, I would shut up and listen when technicians explain to my why it’s not working. The same with oxygen… I breath it every day, but wouldn’t claim to understand the chemistry behind it. However, strangely enough, with regards to gender equality, everybody seems to have a strong opinion about it based on their own experiences, and think of themselves as authorities on the subject just because they are a gender, or perhaps because they are vaguely known in a totally different area of expertise. I wonder if people who work with gender equality ever will get any respect for our knowledge, except hear that we are “feminist man-haters”. Sigh.
Category Archives: Signs
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Toilet signs 5 (Cute one from Beirut)
Beirut traffic/gender activism
Children and traffic in Kabul
Toilet signs 4
Pondicherry street art
Walking along in the streets of the old town in Pondicherry, among flaking paint, rickshaws and dust, I see this painting rising in front of me on a wall. A small detail, but still important in a country from where we have heard too many ugly stories of violence against women cases during the last few months.
Toilet signs 3
Toilet signs 2
Toilet signs 1
It’s amazing how much toilet signs can say about men and women – both our physiologies, our (changing) roles, and what we strive to be.
From airport in Tonga.
Another sign from Tonga. They are very observant there.
From a toilet door, can’t remember from where.
Toilet signs from a nightclub in Fiji.