Stuff

[catsittingstill]

Okay, so I tried a game called "HabitRPG" because I saw someone mention it was getting them motivated to do stuff. And so far it has gotten me motivated to do stuff, which is pretty impressive. For example I realized that when I heat up a cup of tea or something in the microwave I could clean the kitchen for that minute and twenty seconds instead of just pace around--and now the kitchen is *much* cleaner, and that section of my HabitRPG page has turned blue (indicating I'm making this a habit.)

And someone e-mailed me to ask about getting hold of Under The Gripping Beast--Echo's Children's first CD, which is out of print. Apparently it's offered for sale (a used copy, I suppose) on Amazon for $75 (boggle.) I put it as a "to do" on HabitRPG and managed to get it all uploaded in one day yesterday. For those who are interested, it's at the Echo's Children's bandcamp page, available for $10 for high-quality (CD quality anyway) downloads.

Now the other three CDs are "to dos" on HabitRPG, and we will see--I'm hoping to get one up today, and one up Friday...tomorrow will be a loss, since I'm working at the clinic again which will eat half the day.

And I notice there's more talk about Rape Culture.  Good.  I look forward to the day--which I may not live to see--that people stop assuming other people are meat who exist for their pleasure.  I look forward to the day when people blame rapists for raping, not rape victims for not being able to stop rapists.  I look forward to the day when the only imaginable sex involves a partner or partners who are enthusiastic and enjoying themselves.

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[batyatoon]

I look forward to the day when the only imaginable sex involves a partner or partners who are enthusiastic and enjoying themselves.

I wonder, sometimes, if something like this is what Lois Bujold had in mind when she gave Cordelia Naismith that ... still very odd and unsettling opinion (in Shards of Honor) about how rapists are "such direct, childlike souls, hardly offensive at all."

Maybe Beta Colony really is so free of misogyny and screwed-up sexual mores that the only cause of rape there is a form of impulse control disorder.

[catsittingstill]

I vaguely recall reading this, but thought at the time she thought rapists were inoffensive by comparison to the person who was trying to torture and destroy her.

But now you bring it up, yes, perhaps this "only people with damaged executive function would do this" idea is part of it.

Ever wish you could move to Beta Colony?

[batyatoon]

On a weekly basis. *dry* Or at least it feels like that sometimes.

(If it were a literal possible option I don't know if I would actually take it -- there are definite drawbacks to the society, which Cordelia is not shy about pointing out -- but it's a nice dream.)