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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!”
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(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Wednesday March 29 2017, @05:11PM
The issue I really take with it, as somebody who is very unaffected by this phenomena of multiple genders, is the mental health of not all, but many of the so-called genderfluid.
If you were unaware, there are people online who change their gender on a regular basis. For you, it may seem as simple as a change of clothes, but is it for them, truly? Is it not, at some point, indicative of a crisis of identity?
Where is the line drawn? I would say the line should be drawn at the point of self-harm - that is the definition of a mental disorder, right? When a condition begins to get in the way of your life? Well, unfortunately, one of the most cosmopolitan surgical procedures of our time, transgenderism, with some of the most outspoken support groups in the forms of Hollywood, University programs, Television segments, etc. unfortunately still leads to many frequent suicides.
It is not gender that is wrong. It is that SOMETHING underlying much of this subculture is wrong - and not in a "sinner" or "saint" sort of way. People are dying because of it.