December 16th, 2009

Mad for Mad Men

I love the television program “Mad Men” for as many inexplicable reasons as its complicated story lines.

First, Don Draper is hot! That is once I can get past the thought that he resembles my dad in his high school football player photos. Second, Joan the receptionist is real — a strong woman at work, a weak one at expressing her needs in her relationship, and one of the only women on television that you can admire for not looking like a half-starved refugee from an Edvard Munch painting. Third, NOBODY is socially aware at home or at work which makes for an enticingly ignorant way of life.

In Betty Draper’s world, a wife and mother are NOT expected to do it all. Continue… »

By Jennifer O'Shaughnessy