Posts tagged "Mad Men"
- Boyfriend: You watched Mad Men without me again?
- Me: Did you want to watch it? Here, let's watch it right now.
- Me: You're not watching! You're still sitting at your computer.
- BF: I don't care about all these drama parts of the show. I'll watch when I'm interested in something.
- Me: The drama parts are what everyone loves! What interests you about this show?
- BF: The comedy.
- Me: Comedy? Oh, you mean Roger.
- BF: Who?
- Me: The guy who looks like Anderson Cooper.
- BF: Yeah him. I only like scenes with him in them.
- Me: Mhm. Never watching Mad Men with you again.
Pete Campbell is far and away my favorite character on Mad Men. He’s not the most interesting character and he’s certainly not the most sympathetic, but he has the most amazing bitchface. Look at it! Unbelievable. Even when he’s being the most contemptible, wormiest person imaginable—like he was in last night’s episode—just one flash of his bitchface will make me forgive all his wrongs. Also, he played Angel’s son on the spin-off TV show and the Buffy-fan in me likes to believe that the Mad Men and the Angel universes are connected…somehow.
What If I Love Being The Only Girl In The Boys Club? Megan Fox Syndrome, aka Wendy from Peter Pan. It is the delusion that you can become an official part of the boys’ club if you are its strictest enforcer, its most useful prole. That if you follow the rules exactly you can become the Official Woman. If you refuse other women admission you are denying that other women are talented, which makes you just as bad as any boys’ club for thinking there would only be one talented girl at a time. You will never actually be part of the boys’ club, because you are a woman. You are Ray Liotta in Goodfellas. You are not Italian, therefore you are never going to get made. And you don’t want to be a part of the boys’ club, because it is dedicated to preserving its own privilege at your expense. Why wouldn’t you want to know and endorse the work of other women who share your interests? How insecure are you?
In Which We Teach You How To Be A Woman In Any Boys’ Club - Home - This Recording
This article seems appropriate now that I’m watching Mad Men on Netflix.
