You've got to be kidding me...

Current time: 12:07pm
Currrent date: August 15, 2009
Current temperature: 63 degrees

Yeah. It's sixty-three degrees at noon in August.

I don't even know. The weather's been wonky all year. For winter, we usually get twenty days in a row of twenty-degree weather that sends us fleeing in surrender to Phoenix for a few days. Didn't happen this year.

And then we get, like, a week or two of spring before jumping right into ninety- and hundred-degree days. This year, we got a month of rain for June.

And now it's 63 degrees in August. Why are we going to Washington again? Because it sure ain't to get away from the heat like it usually is...

You've got to be kidding me...

Current time: 12:07pm
Currrent date: August 15, 2009
Current temperature: 63 degrees

Yeah. It's sixty-three degrees at noon in August.

I don't even know. The weather's been wonky all year. For winter, we usually get twenty days in a row of twenty-degree weather that sends us fleeing in surrender to Phoenix for a few days. Didn't happen this year.

And then we get, like, a week or two of spring before jumping right into ninety- and hundred-degree days. This year, we got a month of rain for June.

And now it's 63 degrees in August. Why are we going to Washington again? Because it sure ain't to get away from the heat like it usually is...

My desk is going to have a permanent impression in it...

made by my forehead.

Because I've gotten into a discussion about consent issues and gender roles regarding a particular fanfic (not one of mine), and of course, it's All About Me and My Story and My Issues--or at least, it gets me thinking about such.

And I realized that I have, completely unintentionally, subverted gender roles here. The woman has all the power in the relationship (if you can call it that; I guess that's what it is, for a certain value of "relationship"), and the man has virtually none. I'm going to need people to go through this thing with a fine-toothed comb to make sure that I haven't just totally emasculated the poor guy, because that certainly isn't my intention.

NOT ONLY THAT.

But I realized that, if the gender roles were reversed? Boy, howdy, this thing would be ten times more problematic than it is, vis a vis consent issues. Considering how problematic the consent issues already are...yeah. If this was a male vamp and a female wolf, OMG.

And I also realized that I would never ever abuse a female character the way I've abused Ben. And honestly, I'm not sure if that's a bad or a good thing. I guess it depends on why--and that's something I don't even know.

My desk is going to have a permanent impression in it...

made by my forehead.

Because I've gotten into a discussion about consent issues and gender roles regarding a particular fanfic (not one of mine), and of course, it's All About Me and My Story and My Issues--or at least, it gets me thinking about such.

And I realized that I have, completely unintentionally, subverted gender roles here. The woman has all the power in the relationship (if you can call it that; I guess that's what it is, for a certain value of "relationship"), and the man has virtually none. I'm going to need people to go through this thing with a fine-toothed comb to make sure that I haven't just totally emasculated the poor guy, because that certainly isn't my intention.

NOT ONLY THAT.

But I realized that, if the gender roles were reversed? Boy, howdy, this thing would be ten times more problematic than it is, vis a vis consent issues. Considering how problematic the consent issues already are...yeah. If this was a male vamp and a female wolf, OMG.

And I also realized that I would never ever abuse a female character the way I've abused Ben. And honestly, I'm not sure if that's a bad or a good thing. I guess it depends on why--and that's something I don't even know.