Mom’s culturally Mexican and grew up very poor. I think she internalized the idea that doing everything picture-perfect and looking “normal” is necessary in order to be safe.
I don’t mean to diminish her. She was pretty brave about supporting feminist causes, and she’s been a good mother in a lot of ways. I was just pissed off.
(Me and fiction again: there’s this movie called Fido that’s about zombies attacking a 1950s community. The way the characters were more afraid of social shame than of zombies kept reminding me of Mom.)
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Date: 2021-09-23 10:50 pm (UTC)I don’t mean to diminish her. She was pretty brave about supporting feminist causes, and she’s been a good mother in a lot of ways. I was just pissed off.
(Me and fiction again: there’s this movie called Fido that’s about zombies attacking a 1950s community. The way the characters were more afraid of social shame than of zombies kept reminding me of Mom.)