Newsflash: women not uteruses with legs.

[madlori]

I'm not usually a person who flies off the handle at every perceived injustice of the world. Certain topics get me riled, but for the most part, I shrug it off

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[alphasarah]

Old phones can definitely be recycled, and I think in many places also donated to, for example, battered women who are in need of a reliable way to dial 911 (and all phones are always able to do that, contract or no).

[pattinthehatt]

There's a place in Columbus that does that. I'm not recalling who, specifically, but possibly Amethyst.

[theaftercath]

I'll also agree with the donating to shelters option, as well as simply recycling them at a special place (you can't just dump them in the regular recycle bin). The minerals used to make the microprocessors are very precious and very toxic, so making sure old phones are reused or recycled responsibly is very, very important (laptops and gaming consoles, also).

[pattinthehatt]

My guess about the billboard is two fold. Thing One is that the marketing folks wanted to focus on something mostly perceived as positive: babies, new life, whatever you want to call it. Most people, or at least most women, think of babies as a positive thing, even if they themselves are not mothers and/or never intend to be

[madlori]

I'm not asking them to put HPV on the billboard. But why not just a picture of A WOMAN? By herself, without man or child?

[theaftercath]

Are you crazy? You can't leave women alone for a minute lest they forget how to bake.

[pattinthehatt]

... or try putting on a pair of shoes! :o)

[kriscynical]

We did this: Cellphones for Soldiers. It gives them a way to talk to their loved ones back home.

I think Staples has a drop off for plain old recycling, too.

[aome]

To be honest, I would stop freaking out over the billboard. How do you know they haven't made other billboards stressing other health issues, placed elsewhere in the city? My husband had a similar reaction when he saw a billboard for Marriage Encounter (a seminar/retreat to support healthy marriages) which featured a young woman. "Oh, sure, it's only the woman's responsibility." But there are, actually, a whole handful of billboards placed around the region - some with young men, some with older women, you get the idea. They can't cover every possible aspect or target audience with ONE billboard, so I suspect it's likely you just happened to see the pregnancy-targeted one, and it's not like they're saying that's the only thing that matters. Calm yourself.

[madlori]

Now, that's very possible.

And I know I'm just being crazy and kinda silly. I reserve the right to be such on occasion. Something has to break up the monotony of being rational all the time.

[dentar]

careful buying a web phone. some providers (like mine, verizon) force you to spend 30 bux a month on an "unlimited" bandwidth package for the phone, even though the SECRET limit is 2GB.