RE: Gender symbols

2000-06-26 Thread Mike Brown
I have sometimes wondered why these two useful, pre-existing symbols are not used in the U.S. to denote 'male' and 'female' on e.g. restroom doors. One possibility is that, because they are frequently associated with 'sexuality' A more likely explanation is that they are almost never used

RE: Gender symbols

2000-06-26 Thread Marco . Cimarosti
Doug Ewell wrote: I have sometimes wondered why these two useful, pre-existing symbols are not used in the U.S. to denote 'male' and 'female' on e.g. restroom doors. One possibility is that, because they are frequently associated with 'sexuality' or 'relations between the sexes,' they

Gender symbols

2000-06-25 Thread rampshot
I'd think a down-pointing triangle would be for the LADIES' room, for obvious reasons How about male and female Nidoran at a Pokémon convention? Once in a book I saw a top hat and top of a cane for the men's room and a fan for the ladies' room. I would suggest the digits 0 and 1, except then