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.

Vas a la opera, Voy leer mas...

this book is terribly confusing. In it there is a story, a book, a string of thoughts, and a long set of some how interconnected quotes. The quotes personally interest me most. It reminds me of Montaigne, which i read that semester. He is basically the inventor of the essay. He wrote down a bunch of his own ideas and supported then with quotes from famous philosophers and scientists. This was used to give Montaigne legitimacy. The quotes in Vas look to me to be doing a very similar thing. The quotes are related to the ideas of Square(?), the author of the side notes. They are used to give legitimacy to what he is saying. The quotes seem to be loosely associated with what is being said in the actual story, but without the side notes they would hardly make sense. These quotes are also similar to Montaigne's because they use many of the same sort of authors. Also i don't know if i am the only one, but i am more interested in the side notes then the actual story. They remind me of someone reading a novel and taking notes on what they deem important. They also seem to be a bit funny if you read them at certain times. There is one part, i don't remember exactly where, when Square is talking to Circle and she is talking about a story. The side not interjects saying "a common story, " and then continues. The side notes continually interject funny little quips about the story while still maintaining a continuous thought flow of their own. i just think that is cool.