Sure, there's been a lot of chat about everything that's wrong with Mad Men and why women in general and feminists in particular should hate its unrepentant misogynystic guts. And let's face it: This is a show that glorifies gin, Lucky Strikes and getting laid (by anyone but one's spouse).
What's not to hate, right?
Not so fast. As Stephanie Coontz wrote a year or so ago in the Washington Post: "Mad Men's writers are not sexist. The time period was." And so as a woman and a feminist let me unapologetically admit that I cannot wait for the season five premiere on Sunday. Sure, it's great TV, and the attention to period detail is freakishly fantastic. (Pause here to drool over those dresses.) And, as nighttime soaps go, there's one hell of a story going on. But the real reason I love Mad Men -- as opposed to, say,...
What's not to hate, right?
Not so fast. As Stephanie Coontz wrote a year or so ago in the Washington Post: "Mad Men's writers are not sexist. The time period was." And so as a woman and a feminist let me unapologetically admit that I cannot wait for the season five premiere on Sunday. Sure, it's great TV, and the attention to period detail is freakishly fantastic. (Pause here to drool over those dresses.) And, as nighttime soaps go, there's one hell of a story going on. But the real reason I love Mad Men -- as opposed to, say,...
- 3/23/2012
- by Barbara & Shannon Kelley
- Aol TV.
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