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The Handmaid's Tale Hulu Series
Mar. 18th, 2019 01:15 pmso, in two days i'm doing a short presentation with the English department about name symbolism in the Handmaid's Tale hulu series (if you're interested you can ask me and i'll give you the rundown of the presentation in the comments) and I gave my presentation to my mom at the beginning of spring break, taking great care to not let my dad overhear because he's conservative and ya know, it wouldn't be a fun conversation to have. easier to just avoid it But then I was staying at my aunt and uncle's over the back half of break and offered to give it to them, thinking, hey I'll wait until I'm there for a few hours after mom and dad leave and then that'll be a good time to do it. Because I very much Did Not Want to do it in front of my dad.
But. My aunt was like "HEY LET'S DO IT RIght NoW WHEN YOUR DAD IS HERE PERFECT RIGHT!?!?!?!" and I'm like. Uh. Okay. I guess. So I gave the presentation to my aunt and my uncle and my mom and my dad. And it went well. I think it's going to be fun and it's going to go well, but that was incredibly fun to try to explain to my dad.
"So is that book set like, three hundred years ago or something?"
"Uh, no. It's set in the future..."
"What's that supposed to mean? Is this like. feminist stuff?" And I was all ready to go into this because we had already dug this hole so I might as well at least just go through with it and like, actually give this feminist theory with My Father, Conservative Midwest Businessman Who Has Never Heard of Plan B TM but my mom swooped in and was like LETS TALK ABOUT HOW GOOD THIS WILL LOOK ON JOB APPLICATIONS DEAR JESUS SAVE US
And like. On one hand. I'm glad that I didn't have to have this discussion and was a bit peeved that my aunt put me in that situation in the first place. But on the other hand, if we continue to just. Skirt around these issues with him he won't ever learn and it's not doing anyone any good. I had the opportunity to at least TRY to do something and it makes me feel bad that i didn't get to give him a better chance. I don't know if it would have helped, or led to something productive, or anything useful at all, but my brain still wanted to give it a go, you know?
But. My aunt was like "HEY LET'S DO IT RIght NoW WHEN YOUR DAD IS HERE PERFECT RIGHT!?!?!?!" and I'm like. Uh. Okay. I guess. So I gave the presentation to my aunt and my uncle and my mom and my dad. And it went well. I think it's going to be fun and it's going to go well, but that was incredibly fun to try to explain to my dad.
"So is that book set like, three hundred years ago or something?"
"Uh, no. It's set in the future..."
"What's that supposed to mean? Is this like. feminist stuff?" And I was all ready to go into this because we had already dug this hole so I might as well at least just go through with it and like, actually give this feminist theory with My Father, Conservative Midwest Businessman Who Has Never Heard of Plan B TM but my mom swooped in and was like LETS TALK ABOUT HOW GOOD THIS WILL LOOK ON JOB APPLICATIONS DEAR JESUS SAVE US
And like. On one hand. I'm glad that I didn't have to have this discussion and was a bit peeved that my aunt put me in that situation in the first place. But on the other hand, if we continue to just. Skirt around these issues with him he won't ever learn and it's not doing anyone any good. I had the opportunity to at least TRY to do something and it makes me feel bad that i didn't get to give him a better chance. I don't know if it would have helped, or led to something productive, or anything useful at all, but my brain still wanted to give it a go, you know?
