In October last year the Surry Hills Times reported that about the first ever feminist pedestrian crossing to be installed on Crown Street featuring the tasteful pair of 4 inch pumps and long slacks of a powerful business woman as opposed to blatantly sexist pair of male suit pants and shoes.
But now the people of Surry Hills have created the first ever all gender pedestrian crossing, and it may become the new norm: a man, a woman and a gender fluid individual.
They’ve long been the bastion of men: pedestrian crossings. Each one showcasing a white heterosexual male chauvinistic pig wearing what look like Windsor Smiths. Gross.
Enough’s enough said a group of Surry Hills residents.
Depending on who you are, you may see a patriarchal horrible white man set to crush all in front of him, or you may see a strong business woman in a pair of pumps on her way to taking over the world in a positive way creating love wherever she goes, or you may see a gender fluid person.
“It’s for everyone,” says Clover Moore. “Unless you’re a heterosexual white man. Heterosexual white men are horrible. But everyone knows that.”