Actual conversation with my mother
May. 16th, 2017 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyMom: ...and after all, 100 years ago a marriage between an Irish Catholic and a Jew was considered a racially mixed marriage. I think there was a play about that...
Me: There was, Abie's Irish Rose, which was popular enough to spawn a sequel. The couple had twins.
Mom: HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS? THIS IS NOT NORMAL TO KNOW!
Honestly, Mommy, you're the one who brought it up!
And the answer is I know about it the same way I knew about Chekov's Gun when a cabbie brought it up a few weeks prior: TvTropes. So now you know! (I tried telling her that, but I'm not sure she's ever been on TvTropes herself, so....)
Me: There was, Abie's Irish Rose, which was popular enough to spawn a sequel. The couple had twins.
Mom: HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS? THIS IS NOT NORMAL TO KNOW!
Honestly, Mommy, you're the one who brought it up!
And the answer is I know about it the same way I knew about Chekov's Gun when a cabbie brought it up a few weeks prior: TvTropes. So now you know! (I tried telling her that, but I'm not sure she's ever been on TvTropes herself, so....)
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Date: 2017-05-17 08:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-05-22 03:13 am (UTC)There was a really interesting two-part radio documentary on it on the A(ustralian)BC a few years ago. I had only known little bits of the history -- I hadn't really understood how divisive it could be. Even details like job advertisements saying 'Catholics need not apply' were new to me.