Oh, gosh, YES.
Posted on 05/15/2015 1:04:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The final episode of AMC’s “Mad Men” this Sunday heralds the end of a TV era. The show’s seven seasons covered the turbulent decade from 1960 until 1970, dramatizing changing styles and social mores in the lives of “Mad Men” and women, or professionals in the Madison Avenue advertising industry.
For those who aren’t regular watchers: A lot of the show’s male characters spent their time chasing young women around the office and a lot of the female characters spent their time trying to land or keep a husband.
Critics have consistently lauded the series, not just for its entertainment value but also for exposing the dark underbelly of a prosperous, conservative era.
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In some ways it but have been worse then, but in some ways it was better? Today a lot more crassness and rudeness can be directed at women, and it’s seen as okay.
Because the women in Mad Men are actually attractive and sexy.
We will let the younger folks wonder what a twin set is. :))
I graduated from hs in '67. When I went to my twenty year class reunion quite a few of the female graduates had careers in a variety of occupations.
You have to look at the arc of history. Around 1940 only about fifty percent of adults were hs graduates. Until the fifties only a very small pct. of male hs graduates went on to college. It takes time. By the sixties many female hs graduates were going on to college and careers.
“I AM a woman from the Mad Men era. I loved it.”
You must be mistaken, those good old days never existed. Or so I have been told by a bunch of 30 year olds who never lived them. We all must have imagined it.
As someone who grew up in the fifties and sixties what I remember most is virtually everyone, Dem or Republican, loved their country. Nobody liked deadbeats, and every adult would rather have an arm cut off than go on welfare. Men took care of their families. Unlike what some people would have young people believe, children weren't coddled. Certainly not in my family nor anyone I knew. I didn't know one pampered kid.
The social fabric was strong because almost everybody had the same social and moral values. Communism was a dirty word. I remember teachers at my Catholic hs school disparaging "creeping socialism"
Now with the growth of liberalism much of that is gone. The social fabric has been well nigh destroyed in the desire for unlimited sexual fulfillment, drugs, and the lack of love of country. Those sorts of people don't understand that the unadulterated dash for hedonism destroys them and hurts the country. I have to think America peaked in the early sixties.
” We all must have imagined it.”
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It was an era that never heard of “microaggression”.
That makes it damned near perfect in my opinion.
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Despite the lack of electronic toys compared to today's kids, I think kids in my age had it better. In the summer everybody was outside. We played baseball, climbed trees and bluffs, crossed railroad tracks, swam in the Mississippi, and ran around at night playing hide and seek. All without any adult supervision.
I wouldn't trade my summer vacations of fun with no electronic devices whatsoever for all the new electronic toys in the world kids have today. We had a blast.
I agree with all you have stated, as that was the America of my youth. From 1967 on we were in a decline. I was in college in San Francisco in 1968. I was there, I saw the beginning.
“It was an era that never heard of “microaggression””.
All of our aggression was macro. If we caught a groid in the wrong neighborhood we beat his ***, and they did the same to us. Simpler times.
I grew up in a Boston neighborhood and there was a street near us that we kids avoided because of the “tough” kids from that street.
It was just the way it was-—and parents just shrugged and told us to stay away from there.
No police,no community meetings,no law suits,no mediators.
Nothing.
We grew up and moved on.
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And Chanel knits.
I almost always mention it when I see a man or a woman in a sharp hat. Older guys are wearing driving caps this year. I always wanted one!
Yes; it’s a mix. I turned 20 in the ‘60s and women were ladies and most of them were treated like ladies. Women’s Lib has made it OK to be crass and rude to ladies now, and nobody gives it a second thought. Not even the women, sadly. And the young people now are slovenly pigs.
It's women in any generation, really. Summertime is slob season (and one of many reasons I hate it). The other day I saw a teenaged girl in a cute dress, wearing flip-flops. Those things totally ruined her look.
*wink*
Hats are a real finishing touch for men. I have pictures of my dad from the '50s, wearing the wide ties and the fedoras. I believe he wore his hats through the early part of the '70s.
Oh, gosh, YES.
So, like now, only more honest.
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