Desperation

From Desperate Housewives Season Two, Episode 12 "We Will Be All Right":

Lynette: "Hey."
Tom: "Hey."
Lynette:You're not limping. Did everything go okay?"
Tom: "I couldn't do it."
Lynette: "What happened?"
Tom: "I don't know. I got there, I, I put on the paper gown and I, uh, I just couldn't do it."
Lynette: "Why not?"
Tom: "It felt like I was being emasculated."
Lynette: "Oh, please."
Tom: "I'm serious, Lynette. I don't make the money around here anymore. I don't provide for you and the kids. And I wasn't gonna let them snip out the last thing that makes me a man."
Lynette: "Staying home and taking care of the kids doesn't make you less of a man. That's crazy."
Tom: "You expect me to calm your irrational fears. I expect you to calm mine."
Lynette: "Are you saying you're unhappy?"
Tom: "A little bit, yeah."
Lynette: "Well, what we gonna do about that?"
Tom: "I don't know."
Lynette: "Well, can’t we just-?"
Tom: "No, Lynette. I don't know."


The world today is moving fast. Gender roles are being exchanged. Women are more prominent in the workplace. Men are house husbands. These changes among others are creating new complications in once old-fashioned, conventional relationships.

Throw in requiring a vasectomy, or the equivalent for a female, and this makes matters even harder to disentangle. Undergoing a surgery is serious and expensive, thus it is a long term commitment. Square and Circle are making a major decision and it can be quite traumatizing, as seen by Tom Scavo's refusal from Desperate Housewives.

An Acid Trip Through Wikipedia

Okay okay okay... I'll write a blog! jeez!

I think that we failed to notice in the last class that the lines that stream down the side of the page in Vas seem to be literally connected to the different streams of thought. If you notice, each unique typeface seems to be lining up to a common line that is different from the others. The lines terminate as the thought (sub-thought?) terminates. I could be making a "duh" observation, but it certainly changed the way I read the book once I noticed.
The title of the blog sort of sums up one way that I have felt about this book so far. I find it interesting that this book was a collaborative effort seeing as how the art and design seem to be so integral to the written words. It's one thing to illustrate a story, but to have a design be a part of the story practically makes the designer one of the authors... and vise versa. The quotes add in a new layer which poses an interesting question. Who is more important here, the author, the designer, or the editor/researcher? (I know that the two guys who wrote this shared the last task, but what is the most important "role"?).

P.S. There is a vasectomy doctor in town whose name is Dick Chopp... seriously