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.
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
javachik - Jul 12, 2011 10:36:09 am PDT #16320 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
askye - Jul 12, 2011 10:36:24 am PDT #16321 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
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.
Jesse - Jul 12, 2011 10:37:45 am PDT #16322 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
le nubian - Jul 12, 2011 10:38:50 am PDT #16323 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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!
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2011 10:40:39 am PDT #16324 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
javachik - Jul 12, 2011 10:41:30 am PDT #16325 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
le nubian, right, no, I get that it's supposed to be a window into a different time. I just wonder if it will get revisited.
Steph L. - Jul 12, 2011 10:47:41 am PDT #16326 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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.
But...a shirt with a Pepsi logo is pimping Pepsi. But Green Lantern isn't real. (Much to Allyson's relief.) You're not actually pimping Green Lantern Corp. (Or Batman Inc.)
Silly dress code.
Jesse - Jul 12, 2011 10:51:36 am PDT #16327 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Are you literally not allowed to wear a Gucci belt? Or an Izod polo? That seems equivalent to me.
Fred Pete - Jul 12, 2011 10:53:44 am PDT #16328 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Wasn't it only until the 1970s that a husband raping his wife was a crime?
Mid-'70s. I remember some very heated arguments on the subject.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 12, 2011 10:56:06 am PDT #16329 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Are you literally not allowed to wear a Gucci belt? Or an Izod polo? That seems equivalent to me.
What about a Louis Vuitton purse?
This reminds me of my mom's dress code, where women could not where khaki's, but men were to wear "Dockers or Haggar pants". Which is sort of weird, because I think Haggar is a (sears?) store brand. She worked for a county department of Social Services.