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Audrey, 27

Once, my uncle made a bad joke during Patricia Arquette’s winning Oscar speech for the movie Boyhood when she dedicated her award to single mothers. My cousins and aunts and I rolled our eyes at the joke (which was something along the lines of boohoo, cat-ladies divorced everywhere have it so hard with incoming alimony, child support etc). We paused the show (Thank God for PVR Pause so we didn’t miss any Chris Rock hosting moments), explaining that single motherhood is nothing to poke fun at and it isn’t pathetic or attention-seeking for Arquette to shed light on this. It was a moment of raw, genuine reaction from both parties and ended up being a good discussion about feminism, jokes at others’ expenses and empathy. I stress-ate a lot of tostitos and salsa afterwards but it was well worth it.

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