Saw my one friend's mom and sister the other night.

The other night I went and saw my one friend's mom and sister... The mom is the one who's a kind of New-Age-y 2nd wave feminist who sweeps around the house wearing a muu-muu all the time and smokes a lot, and exudes this very comforting vibe.

At one point, we were going through her shelves looking for some old feminist books she had mentioned, and when I found one and went to take it down from a high shelf, she was like, "It'll be dusty. Blow it!", and then laughed at what she said.

She was also saying how she always found confirmations of patriarchy back when she was a court recorder. She said that it was a bitch to indicate interruptions in a transcript -- you'd have to put in hyphens and then the interruptor's name in brackets followed by their comments and then go back to the original comments -- and whenever there was an expert testifier, the males would never get interrupted, but like every woman who was an expert testifier would be interrupted on practically every comment, and she'd always be putting in the brackets.

She also said that she hated doing all the typing, and that one year when there was a bunch of CSC cases coming through the court -- Criminal Sexual Conduct cases, she explained further, all involving kids -- she was very glad when the judge would begin his sentencing remarks, since it would mean type up two more paragraphs and then stop typing for that trial.

Anyhow, she said that for like a month all the CSC cases were for girls, and then one day it was for a little boy, and when he began his sentencing remarks, she was glad since she would be going home soon, and then like four pages later and the judge was still going on and on about how the little boy was traumatized for the rest of his life and how hard it was for him to get up there and testify, she was thinking to herself that that was bullshit since the little boy hadn't faced worse CSC or circumstances different from any of the little girls who had been through the court that past month.

She also said that patriarchy is exemplified by the one time she saw "Deliverance" -- she was disturbed for days afterword by the male rape scene, whereas that never happens with female rape scenes in movies since it's old hat.