OMG, someone just called female on male rape (where the woman is riding the man, not penetrating him) not "real" rape--more like a "forced massage". Jesus. So all the time I've been having sex with guys, they've just been getting rubdowns? How...distant.

Doesn't count if you don't get poked!

Sure, its like how being poked is what makes you gay.

In completely other news, can someone remind me I don't believe in Tarot, and especially not online Tarot? Twice recently I've done a spread about my work situation, and every card seems right on, and then the "outcome" card is TERRIBLE, and I'm scared.

I'd bet terrible outcomes generate more return visits. If that is so, it is in their hit generating interest for you to get them.

Online Tarot totally doesn't count, Jesse. Stop freaking yourself out. Go do online I Ching. I think there's a rule against I Ching being scary.

I thought it interesting the way Mad Men handled rape. The perpetrator never really got a "comeuppance" but I think that was the point? The fact that the victim loathed every single thing about the rape but went on to create a life with the perp anyway. Like she was expected to. And there's a kindness that is part of their relationship, too, which, I dunno. I hope that plot is further developed next season, because I am still waiting for the rapist to have to pay.

In other news, Dad is coming to visit on Thursday. Right now he's in Maine, a friend of his rents a cabin every year, and this year his wife didn't want to make the drive so Dad went with him.

I have a ton of stuff to do but I'm having a hard time getting motivated in the heat. I almost wish I had window a/c unit.

I'd bet terrible outcomes generate more return visits. If that is so, it is in their hit generating interest for you to get them.

Ooh, that's a good thought. Of course, I've gotten good outcomes on other topics (and there's no way for the site to know the topic)....

Online Tarot totally doesn't count, Jesse. Stop freaking yourself out. Go do online I Ching.

Heh.

java,

I don't think the rapist is supposed to pay in that scenario. I think we the audience are to see his actions as part of the times and what many women had to deal with.

Wasn't it only until the 1970s that a husband raping his wife was a crime? I saw an ABC movie about that in high school and I was aghast. Aghast!

I am now realising two dress-code related things: if we're not allowed to wear logos on our clothes, I'm probably not allowed to wear my superhero belt buckles, which is woefully disappointing. You have no idea how radical they are. So fucking cool. Also, for all the talk in the email about BUSINESS casual, long velvet skirt and heavy boots was not in the spirit of the law. Oops.