Bloody motherland again.

[Nottodaysatanugh]

Third thread this week where the OP has described someone as “exactly/think Amanda from Motherland”

I’m convinced people think motherland is real and they need to emulate the drama in real life.

Yawn.

You’re being a bit of a Victor Meldrew

yep, the episode introducing her mother, you thought, oh, THAT explains a lot.
none of the characters are all good or all bad. they all have their flaws. I mean, you even see a redeeming side to Julias selfish husband when you realise they have a shared sense of humour (teasing each other about the builder)
none of them are one sided. most of them are very flawed. which makes them all more three dimensional characters.

I’d get it. I swear Motherland stopped me turning into Amanda, although these days I’m lurching more towards Julia.

References can't be restricted to only things everyone will definitely know.

Felt like it 🤷🏻‍♀️ got a four hour layover at the airport

I think I need to watch it!

no, it always was going to be. they can't get everyone back, so they're focusing more on her.

This is not the same thing at all. Handmaid's Tale was a warning to us all. When I read the book years ago it seemed far fetched. Not so far fetched now is it, with what's going on in Afghanistan and some states in the USA? It's no wonder people think of Gilead when they read certain news items.

Yes maybe. I've only seen it used quite recently and hadn't before then, so maybe because Amandaland is coming up. The thead where I saw it the OP was really labouring the "I know an Amanda" thing and kept repeating it, in case anyone had missed her using it to describe the person.😀

Just be a “Mandy”. Amanda didn’t like “Mandy.”

Characters from films and tv even books etc are used all the time for quick easy ways to describe a type of person or to emphasise a particular trait as a description.

one example could be oh he is a bit of a Del Boy type. To describe a ducking and diving type of character.

i don’t see what the problem is.

is it because you particularly dislike motherland so the reference offends you?

But that’s the thing about satire. It’s bloody close to the truth. The original purpose of satire was to ‘hold a mirror up to society’.

I once punched someone for calling me Mandy. (This is not as bad as it sounds, but the principle remains).

I got in trouble once for suggesting all the men on the sex board were like Kevin - so understanding

To be fair I’m more likely to describe myself as doing something “Liz from motherland”

Exactly. Every thing in The Handmaids Tale, the book anyway, is something that was happening to women in the real world, not in one place but each aspect is or was real.

Actually I've never stood at a school gate or been on the PTA & I've still met & suffered an Amanda. She was in a sewing group. shudder

To be fair, Margaret Atwood used things that had already happened as inspiration for that, although I agree with your point.

Edit: I see it as overused, and occasionally misused by people on the internet who invoke The Handmaid's Tale every five minutes about things that aren't relevant. Women losing their rights in the USA and Afghanistan is relevant.

Motherland is a drama based on real life and is popular because most of us recognise the characters from our own life. We all know an Amanda, a Liz and a Julia and that's why it's funny.

This was my thought 🤣 and generally MNetters are far more likely to have watched Motherland than the rest of the population.

Margaret Attwood based the book on Afghanistan. Look at the plight of women in Afghanistan today.
I find mumsnet depressing these days.

It's only a way of showing what someone is like. What's wrong with that?

I refuse to answer to Mandy, my name is Amanda

it's VERY funny. one of our favourites and we are childfree. it's probably even funnier if you're part of school gate politics and so on.

not JUST Afghanistan. everthing in it reflected women's rights breaches all over the world at different points in time. she said none of it was pulled out of the air. it's all based on something that either is or has been a reality somewhere in the world.