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[Phone, filtered from drones etc.]

This question is largely for the women with drones as their assigned spouses. How do you deal with their rather narrow attitudes toward what you should be doing? With the children I can at least tell them to run along and do their homework, but ever since Sirius got droned he's been giving me no end of grief.

On a more general note... women's trousers. I know they existed in this era, does anyone have any idea where I might find some?

Date: 2011-05-03 08:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] breaker-gorgon.livejournal.com
I'm afraid I can't help you with a droned spouse.
Mine's rather active.

However, on the second subject, it's difficult to find any trousers without the aid of a tailor.

I find it's just easier to 'borrow' something from your husband's side of the closet.

I'm forever sleeping in Adachi's shirts and he doesn't seem to mind.

Perhaps this would work for you as well?

Date: 2011-05-03 04:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] after-thesky.livejournal.com
Hmm, it might work if I can get around the first problem at any rate.

Date: 2011-05-04 03:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] breaker-gorgon.livejournal.com
Well, our drone children go to school like clockwork. Perhaps your drone has someplace he goes for work on schedule? If so, help yourself to whatever you find you look good in. He can always replenish such garments.

Date: 2011-05-04 04:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] after-thesky.livejournal.com
He has some sort of vaguely defined office job. Nine to five, of course. I suppose the script might be so set he doesn't even notice.

Date: 2011-05-08 04:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] breaker-gorgon.livejournal.com
I’m sure if you time it right, you’ll be fine.
I personally don’t have an aversion to skirts, but pants can be quite comfortable casually.
It seems odd to me they don’t supply them here.
It’s obviously not historically accurate.
To me, it seems this world is based off of someone’s view of a simpler time.
Though that’s just speculation.

Date: 2011-05-08 04:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] after-thesky.livejournal.com
There are some activities for which trousers are simply infinitely more practical. This town is far more restrictive than the 1950s truly were. Sexism was a major problem back then, but women's lib goes back farther than this.

Date: 2011-05-08 06:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] breaker-gorgon.livejournal.com
I concur completely.
I’d read quite a few history books before coming here.
It’s an almost Victorian view of femininity in a near perfect setting.
Speaking of reading, have you been to the library?
The only interesting thing I can find is a Harlequin romance novel simply because I am female.
I wonder if I can get Adachi to get me some other things to read.

Date: 2011-05-03 10:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hontobakabaka.livejournal.com
"While this town still considers me a child, so I don't know the full extent of the situation, have you ever considered asking him to go get you something from the basement then locking the door? It seems drones don't have a day to day memory, or at least, they don't remember anything outside the script so it doesn't offend them."

Date: 2011-05-04 12:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] after-thesky.livejournal.com
Hmm, he doesn't think I can do any heavy lifting. That might at least buy me some time.

Date: 2011-05-04 12:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hontobakabaka.livejournal.com
"That may be true, however you are a woman. I've been told that means you can't lift heavy things either by many of the drones. Its stupid I know."

Date: 2011-05-04 04:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] after-thesky.livejournal.com
I really had quite enough of those attitudes when I was younger.

Date: 2011-05-04 10:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hontobakabaka.livejournal.com
"I didn't have them back home. People were just people. This place is rather odd with all that."

Date: 2011-05-05 03:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] after-thesky.livejournal.com
That's the way it should be. We've made a lot of progress since I was a girl.

Date: 2011-05-05 10:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hontobakabaka.livejournal.com
"Its always been that way where I come from, but, I may be further ahead on the time line after equality was gained, or from a different time line. What year was it before you came here?"

Date: 2011-05-08 04:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] after-thesky.livejournal.com
It was 2010. I was actually born in the decade the town is impersonating.

Date: 2011-05-08 10:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hontobakabaka.livejournal.com
"I was born in 2185 so.... Yes, the culture would have had plenty of time to evolve past this nonsense."

Date: 2011-05-03 12:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dimensioncannon.livejournal.com
There's a shop that sells 'em near the part of town that the Highway showed up in. I...just stayed out of the house when he was home most've the time. [You know, before she got the best not!husband ever.]

Date: 2011-05-04 12:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] after-thesky.livejournal.com
There's plenty that needs doing out there anyway...

Date: 2011-05-10 01:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dimensioncannon.livejournal.com
That's what I figure. Much too boring to stay in all day.

Date: 2011-05-03 06:52 pm (UTC)
golds: (all that night and all the next)
From: [personal profile] golds
Ah, I'm quite interested in the second half of that question as well. I can't believe they won't even give us a decent pair of trousers in this place..

Date: 2011-05-04 12:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] after-thesky.livejournal.com
Restricting women to skirts isn't even historically accurate.

Date: 2011-05-04 06:56 pm (UTC)
golds: (back over time when we)
From: [personal profile] golds
Well, we can't say they are striving for perfect historical accuracy. I don't believe giant robots destroying towns belong in the fifties, after all.

Date: 2011-05-05 03:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] after-thesky.livejournal.com
No... that was the seventies. Maybe the eighties.

Date: 2011-05-05 02:58 pm (UTC)
golds: (the rules i've been breaking)
From: [personal profile] golds
It does make one wonder why they would bother to keep this thing up with drones and all if they're not even going for historical accuracy.

Date: 2011-05-08 02:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] after-thesky.livejournal.com
My best guess is that the drones are here to keep us in line.

Date: 2011-05-08 01:49 pm (UTC)
golds: (no; i can't do a thing but wonder)
From: [personal profile] golds
It's a feasible idea. But then again, they aren't particularly good at that either, if you consider what sort of things go down here.

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