Julia Washington
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And so like that conditioning of always having to be prepared, like presentable for the male gaze.
Yeah.
I mean, obviously, her mom's living her acting dreams through Hayden, right?
Like, that's very clear throughout the whole book.
Yeah.
But she also, as the book goes on, has this very prescriptive idea of what their family's supposed to look like, what her role is, what the husband—like, all of it.
And whenever it starts to not look or present or become anywhere near that, she does this weird—
I don't want to say it's like ignoring, but it's almost like... It almost is like it's ignoring.
It's like, that's not real.
This is who we are.
Denial.
That's the word.
Yeah.
And that's hard.
Comparison is hard.
Right.
Right.
I was so uncomfortable in the lead up to that story, Chelsea.
Yeah.
Whatever that is.