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Last Call for the Phone Booth?

posted by on Wednesday March 29 2017, @06:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-one-carries-coins-anyway dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Some of you may recognize this coin-operated curiosity: It’s called a phone booth.

Phone booths used to be everywhere, providing an office for agent Maxwell Smart … and a sanctuary for Tippi Hedren from killer seagulls in “The Birds.”

Now, they’re so rare that Peter Ackerman wrote a children’s book, “The Lonely Phone Booth,” about one of only four remaining outdoor phone booths in all of Manhattan.

“I walked past this phone booth every day with my kid when he was three years old,” Ackerman said. “And at a certain point, he said to me, ‘Why is that phone in a box?’ And I realized that he didn’t know what a phone booth was, which is so bizarre!”

Does the world also no longer need Superman?

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  • (Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday March 29 2017, @03:29PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Wednesday March 29 2017, @03:29PM (#485952)

    Homework: Cracking concepts and disentangling definitions

    The techniques I’ve outlined here are very straightforward, but they do require some deliberate thought, imagination, and practice. Here are some gender-related questions for you to explore using these approaches. There are plenty of possible answers – this isn’t primarily about finding the correct ones, it’s just about getting used to intentionally and explicitly navigating these concepts and their structure.

    1. Locate three distinct and separate physical phenomena that have each been referred to with the term “biological sex”. How can definitions of biological sex be constructed to affirm or contradict trans people’s genders?
    2. Name three specific and relevant differences between a trans woman voicing an identity as a woman, and a cis man voicing an identity as a helicopter. How is the term “identify” used to obscure these differences?

    - Gender reasoning exercises: Symbol, substance, and tabooing your words (More Trans, module 1-1) [genderanalysis.net]

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