tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post8755750553338703105..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: This Week in Geek (6-12/05/19)Siskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-57506085790580323932019-05-13T07:23:33.612-03:002019-05-13T07:23:33.612-03:00Victorian gentlemen already knew about consent, so...Victorian gentlemen already knew about consent, so that's nice.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-81789756798107458332019-05-12T22:51:41.830-03:002019-05-12T22:51:41.830-03:00I saw "Time After Time" in the theater. ...I saw "Time After Time" in the theater. I was still young enough to frown upon the hero sleeping with a woman he wasn't wedded to, ah early religious training. Which makes me think about this: we've probably come as far from 1979, sexual dynamics-wise, as 1979 was from Victorian England. To be sure, the years up to 1979 offered a lot more legal rights to women and took the stigma out of premarital sex and divorce, but our collective understanding of what is genuinely fair (beyond technical legal equality) has advanced in all sorts of ways since then. Note that I'm not saying we've <i>achieved</i> genuine fairness, but we at least have a much better idea of what fairness looks like.<br /><br />I seem to recall Steenburgen telling MacDonald that she was "practically raping him", LULZ! That line would never fly these days, and what's more, a woman initiating l'amour is pretty normal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com