Comments on: Mad Men makes me…Mad http://www.twirlit.com/2009/09/08/mad-men-makes-me-mad/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:04:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Shiro http://www.twirlit.com/2009/09/08/mad-men-makes-me-mad/#comment-5167 Shiro Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:13:37 +0000 http://www.twirlit.com/?p=21798#comment-5167 If you hate this show, you should totally stay away from ROOTS. They showed how badly slaves were treated and you'd probably have to have your husband clean up the mess after your head explodes. Why get infuriated over this? You know it is the point of the show. It demonstrates attitudes back then accurately. Alcoholism is OK in the workplace? Abhorrent! Smoking is OK and encouraged everywhere? Inane! Whites and blacks dating? Shocking! While it sucks that women are treated poorly in the show, it also does a good job of demonstrating how they started to turn things around then as well. Peggy is quite the unlikely hero. And being able to see the transition period is actually quite inspiring. But what would I know? I'm just a guy. ^___^ If you hate this show, you should totally stay away from ROOTS. They showed how badly slaves were treated and you’d probably have to have your husband clean up the mess after your head explodes.

Why get infuriated over this? You know it is the point of the show. It demonstrates attitudes back then accurately. Alcoholism is OK in the workplace? Abhorrent! Smoking is OK and encouraged everywhere? Inane! Whites and blacks dating? Shocking!

While it sucks that women are treated poorly in the show, it also does a good job of demonstrating how they started to turn things around then as well. Peggy is quite the unlikely hero. And being able to see the transition period is actually quite inspiring.

But what would I know? I’m just a guy. ^___^

]]> By: Maggie http://www.twirlit.com/2009/09/08/mad-men-makes-me-mad/#comment-5158 Maggie Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:49:10 +0000 http://www.twirlit.com/?p=21798#comment-5158 Right, as you have duly noted, that is the point. Things were much, much worse only a generation ago. And while it is quite frustrating to see how bad it was, it is also encouraging to see how far we've come (although, of course, we have much further to go). As always, it is good to have a healthy understanding of history, so as to learn from it and to not repeat the same mistakes. And as bad as the characters in Mad Men may be (and yes, it is pretty bad), things were much worse even before that. Fortunately though, progress has been moving forward. An interesting fact of Mad Men, though, is that the majority of the show's writers are female. Which is great in of itself, but even more so, I think, because it provides the show with a female perspective of the era. We get to see how women of the early sixties really felt. And, for me at least, that is really refreshing (as well as sad and tragic). So yeah, much thanks to the many, many progressive women activists of the past. And many more to those of the present and future. Right, as you have duly noted, that is the point. Things were much, much worse only a generation ago. And while it is quite frustrating to see how bad it was, it is also encouraging to see how far we’ve come (although, of course, we have much further to go).

As always, it is good to have a healthy understanding of history, so as to learn from it and to not repeat the same mistakes. And as bad as the characters in Mad Men may be (and yes, it is pretty bad), things were much worse even before that. Fortunately though, progress has been moving forward.

An interesting fact of Mad Men, though, is that the majority of the show’s writers are female. Which is great in of itself, but even more so, I think, because it provides the show with a female perspective of the era. We get to see how women of the early sixties really felt. And, for me at least, that is really refreshing (as well as sad and tragic).

So yeah, much thanks to the many, many progressive women activists of the past. And many more to those of the present and future.

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