[ExI] Circumcision

[spike]

>… Behalf Of Rafal Smigrodzki
Subject: Re: [ExI] Circumcision

 

 

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Anders <anders at aleph.se <mailto:anders at aleph.se> > wrote:


>From an ethics perspective this is obviously stupid: gender does not matter, and few if any ethicists are willing to say that one cultural system provides valid reasons but the other doesn't. 

 

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>…Luckily, since gender is a social construct, soon we men all will be able to claim womanhood. We won't even have to remove any body parts.  Rafał

 

 

I was at the Exploratorium Wednesday and noticed something on the restroom doors.  Remember when they used to tell you which gender went where?

 

If you look at the photo on the right, below the triangle, you can see where they perhaps recently removed the sign which says which gender.

 


				
		
			
	
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


So OK then, suppose I really don’t remember which of these go with which (I really don’t.)  And suppose I go into my best guess and there’s an adolescent girl in there who shrieks and runs out terrified?  Is everyone still hip and mod and with it and all that?  Is not this whole thing introducing risk that her father might be standing outside the restroom ready to belt me?  Is not this scheme of mystery-restroom introducing risk?  Is there any remaining justification for removing all gender references on restrooms?  Does that apply to locker rooms?  And if we are really all one gender now, why do the blind get a break?  They can still tell which is which, since they learned those two symbols by feel.  The museum needs to put both symbols on both restrooms, ja?  And if so, do they install urinals in the one or remove them from the other?

 

Oh I am soooo not hip.

 

spike

 

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