Elderly Crossing
Apparently our road sign depicting the elderly is “insulting ” because it “doesn’t represent older people as they are today”.
So what?
It is a stereotype. It is a image that can be instantly recognised by a motorist. It doesn’t mean or even suggest that all elderly people are hunched over and walk with a stick, in the same way that cars, buses, lorries and motorbikes etc don’t look like their pictorial representations.
There is simply no point wasting effort and money re-designing this sign. Age Concern and Help the Aged will just have to accept that it is a less-than-flattering depiction, but one that will not change.
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It looks like the woman is either picking the old guy’s pocket or in a revelation of sexuality amongst senior citizens, she’s fisting him, and he’s leaning on his stick for support.