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    Seconding Noreen's comments: If the Times wanted to be consistent with its gender stereotyping, the love-that-iPhone piece might have explored how surprising it is that MEN are using cellphones. You know, that men would want to acquire a technology that enables them to ... communicate. It has always seemed to me the obvious technology for women, at least according to accepted gender notions. 

     

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