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class has been so interesting this week; i can hardly wait for wednesday.  i mean, i didn't get to experience the conceptual physics class that y'all went to together, so that conversation was both very interesting and very alienating for me.  i'm sure it was weird for the specs, too.  so i'd rather talk about teknolust here tonight.  wow, weird and wonderful.  and somehow both very funny and very sad - as stereotypes often are.  in my head, (and maybe this is me being really odd), the three sra's seemed not just to be kind of "ideal" people, as computer programmed, gorgeous adult women, but perhaps parodies of children... and in some sense, of men.  ok, bear with me here - they're super dependent on a female "mom" figure, but struggling for independence, they get cranky if they can't experience the physical contact and specific food that they crave, and they (ruby, at least) are being taught to suppress their natures and their emotions.  they sound a lot like conflicted little kids to me - ruby because she's expected to the provider without ever having emotions, olive because she's the nurturer but also the gatekeeper, and marinne with her pickiness and "acting out."  and somehow, (maybe, again, this is just me and please feel free to tell me i'm talking crazy), that makes me think of little boys.  so maybe we still have a fairly deep ideal of the perfect person as intrinsically male... or, more likely, the perfect person as that-which-we-have-socially-constructed-as-being-male.  i don't know, perhaps i'm nuts.  i'm looking forward to hearing what everyone else got out of the film, though.  it sure was interesting.