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Last Call for the Phone Booth?

posted by on Wednesday March 29 2017, @06:12AM   
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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Original Submission

• Re:No superman Re:No superman (Score: 3, Interesting) by KiloByte on Wednesday March 29 2017, @11:30AM (1 child)

  by KiloByte (375) on Wednesday March 29 2017, @11:30AM (#485816)

  You hardly can change your gender yet. There's a costly invasive procedure that produces organs that kind-of look like the real thing but are not fully functional. It will improve in a decade or two, but for now, most of those who claim to be of a gender opposite to what they are avoid such operations.

  But this is not what the "identity politics" crowd preaches. What they want, is to allow everyone self-identify as an attack helicopter, and not only have their delusion listed as the true gender on their ID but also to have the taxpayers pay for the maintenance and oil checks (or whatever the delusional person wishes), and make it a crime to refer to them using correct pronouns.

  As for bathroom segregation, the reason for that is not to have a person get the warm feelings of "I am really of gender X". The purpose is to avoid harassment that immature people, both kids and adults, tend to have in mind in toilets (the phrase "bathroom humour" is not baseless), and let people do nr. 1/nr. 2 in peace. If you do what the rabid left wants, you'll immediately have elementary school boys who don't even know what "trans" or "identity politics" mean pull this trick to get into the girls' bathroom (and vice versa).

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  Ceterum censeo systemd esse delendam.

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• Re:No superman (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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