I read through it and it’s absurd. When people get fixated on something, they’ll filter out everything else and see that thing everywhere in nature. Max in Pi chose 216. This author chose sexism.
I mean what would a feminist skyline look like? Buildings shaped like vaginas of varying sizes? Is that even structurally possible?
I think she’s making observations that seem completely uncontroversial. That cities and our conceptions of them—clearly in a wide sense having almost nothing to do with the shapes of towers—have been largely organised by the interests of an extremely sexist society, and show the fruits of that. To me it would be baffling if it weren’t the case. As for the stuff about ejaculating skyscrapers, it says:
If the sexism of the city began and ended with architectural symbolism, I would’ve happily written a grad school essay about this then turned my attention to more pressing matters.
And given she talks about poverty and immigration, I don’t get the impression she thinks a feminist interpretation of urban planning is the single view through which all things must pass.
This is pretty consistent with my reaction. I think that the broad topic of “should we design our cities to be better and healthier” is a great topic and I have no problem feminists want to look at that topic through their own lens.
The article is paragraph salad. It’s just a banal observation laundry list of feminist issues vaguely related to urbanism. I’m genuinely shocked to learn the author actually teaches urban geography at a well respected university, because she writes about it like a first year student trying to hit all the buzzwords.
I mean, it’s 2020 and she’s presenting overly simplistic views like it’s brand new information. I can assure you that the topic of gender inequality in the built environment has received quite a lot of study over the past 60+ years. “Tall buildings are kinda shaped like penises!” Really? That’s what you open with?
Next she’ll say weapons are sexist because rockets and bombs are shaped like dicks too!
Not our fault that penises are more aerodynamic than vaginas.
Because of course it does.
They say that as though the US doesn’t have a major flesh-eating bacteria problem.
Some years back there was a major flesh-eating bacteria scare and iirc it was 100% a media event. For some reason the background of some 100s of people who get a bad case of it and some die got on the news even though there was no change and roughly the same number of people had always gotten it.
MRSA is not a media event! It’s a real problem!
http://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2018/12/11/episode-15-mrsa-make-resistance-susceptible-again/
I called myself part of the silent majority on here the other day. I based that on googling it and finding this:
“The silent majority is an unspecified large group of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly”
Why is Trump saying “The Silent Majority is Stronger Than Ever”. Does this imply the silent majority is GOP voters?
Of course.
The silent majority means something specific in America. Nixon credited his win to the silent majority, meaning people who weren’t vocally speaking out for civil rights, but were instead sitting at home silently hating black people.
Aw, geez. I basically called myself a racist GOP supporter? I am not part of the silent majority then. I just don’t post in political threads much.
Nixon didn’t invent the term. His was just the most prominent usage.
That doesn’t invalidate the basic idea that sometimes a vocal minority can hijack a conversation.
Don’t beat yourself up too bad. Once upon a time, I thought libertarianism was a valid political philosophy. Then Ted Cruz became my senator . . .
Go with Moral Majority instead. 
I’ve got probably 40 lbs of coins I’m trying to bribe my daughter to sort. PM for price list.
Why dont you just dump the coins into a Coinstar machine? They count it for you. And there is no fee as long as you select gift card(~30 vendors) rather than cash out option.
Didn’t know about the gift card thing… I thought the fee was 8% and that’s what I offered my daughter to sort them using an electric coin sorter (still a pain because you have to put them in a slot rather than dump them). Would’ve probably been $50 for her. She looked at me like I had insulted her.