Fun Home Book Report

I know we don’t usually have conversations like this and normally it’s mom that is sharing her knowledge, wisdom, and giving us advice. I have learned a lot of things over the course of this past semester in my Gender & Women’s Studies class. Now for the end of the semester we are writing letters to show some of the things that we have retained. I think these letters are a great opportunity for me to share some of the things I have learned with you. Some of the topics in here might make you roll your eyes at me and laugh it off but I hope that you take the time to read them. Let me start by saying I am proud of the people you are becoming as you grow up. I know I’m the oldest, but there are times I look up to you as well. All of you should be comfortable being whoever you want to be. In the graphic novel, Fun Home, the main character’s father hides who he really is and by the end of the …show more content…
In this book it talks about the new raunch culture and how it was becoming more prominent in today’s society. In this culture women make sex objects of themselves and of other women. Shows like Girls Gone Wild, other movies, and music videos are common types of media that women are used as objects to get better ratings. We can see this everyday. The sexualization of women in these videos influences the people that watch them to either act like these women, or treat women like objects. Ariel Levy, the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs, puts it best when she says “If we believed that we were sexy and funny and competent and smart, we would not need to be like strippers or like men or like anyone other than our own specific, individual selves” (page 200). So again, none of you need to act a certain way or do a certain thing. You are great the way you are, have confidence in who your true self is and take pride in that