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This is why I only listen to NPR now.

I'm not big on radio talk shows, but sometimes I'll listen if I'm really bored at work. On the radio the other day they're having a discussion on girls being raped. I knew where this was going already. In one instance they talk about a girl being raped by a man with no legs. And though this man has no legs she still gets blamed for not "wriggling away." The laughing got to me more than anything else. "How can you not get way from a man with no legs? Run girl!" No talk of the man other than "how do you thrust if you have no legs?" It was the girl's fault for not getting away from the, and they were skirting dangerously close to this word, cripple. Nevermind if the guy had a weapon or had his hands around her neck. No, it was clearly all her fault for not getting away.

Now males I can withstand going down that route, that bullshit isn't new. But the woman laughing with them? That idiocy was intolerable. But hey a legless man raping a girl too stupid to get away, that's funny to these idiots.

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A farthing on one hand and a pound on the other

Well, for the time being I'm scrapping my idea of making a Moroccan takchita for the Renaissance Faire. They're beautiful and lovely, but I have to do a lot of research before I can make it true to the period. As well as buying the material and putting it all together. These are the three things I just don't have right now: money, time, and focus. I really want to go in costume so I'll relegate myself to beginner status and buy the standard merry wench outfit off the rack. The English merchant and his Moroccan wife will just have to wait a while.

In the same vein my plans to make a Victorian walking outfit are slowly morphing into a Steampunk outfit. I find myself sketching again, which is a wonderful thing. My creative spirit was crushed a while ago and now I feel it daring to stretch its wings again. Designing a gamut of things too. From the poorer classes whom I have very few historical depictions of to the standard upper crust wear where I can find way too many references.