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Why New York Women Wish They Lived in the ‘Mad Men’ Era
New York Post ^ | May 14, 2015 | Heather Robinson

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Philosophy; US: New York
KEYWORDS: hollywood; madmen; moviereview; newyork; television
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To: MayflowerMadam

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.


41 posted on 05/15/2015 2:46:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Because the women in Mad Men are actually attractive and sexy.


42 posted on 05/15/2015 2:47:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: CatherineofAragon

We will let the younger folks wonder what a twin set is. :))


43 posted on 05/15/2015 3:34:31 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (Hey Hillary, ... liar, liar pants on fire.)
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To: varyouga
"no choice of careers"

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.

44 posted on 05/15/2015 3:39:18 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: Mears

“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.


45 posted on 05/15/2015 3:42:56 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: Conservative4Ever
"America of my youth"

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.

46 posted on 05/15/2015 3:50:41 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

” We all must have imagined it.”

It was an era that never heard of “microaggression”.

That makes it damned near perfect in my opinion.

.


47 posted on 05/15/2015 3:52:00 PM PDT by Mears (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."Voltaire))
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To: TBP
"were things better then"

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.

48 posted on 05/15/2015 3:56:28 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: driftless2

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.


49 posted on 05/15/2015 4:00:31 PM PDT by Conservative4Ever (Hey Hillary, ... liar, liar pants on fire.)
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To: Mears

“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.


50 posted on 05/15/2015 4:11:21 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: CatherineofAragon; Tax-chick
I began to wear New Yorker-style fedoras and when traveling, in my suit and hat, I can't tell you how many stewardesses commented favorably on the look and many would mention fond memories of their father and other gentlemen wearing hats. . .they really like the ‘look.’
51 posted on 05/15/2015 4:16:11 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

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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52 posted on 05/15/2015 4:19:14 PM PDT by Mears (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."Voltaire))
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To: CatherineofAragon

And Chanel knits.


53 posted on 05/15/2015 4:31:36 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("He's not my prophet, he's just some dead bloke." ~ Mark Steyn)
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To: Hulka

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!


54 posted on 05/15/2015 4:33:07 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("He's not my prophet, he's just some dead bloke." ~ Mark Steyn)
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To: nickcarraway

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.


55 posted on 05/15/2015 5:17:46 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Army Air Corps
"I love that look as well. Pity that too many women in my generation are slovenly in their dress."

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.

56 posted on 05/15/2015 5:21:41 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office.")
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To: Conservative4Ever

*wink*


57 posted on 05/15/2015 5:22:04 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office.")
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To: Hulka; Tax-chick
"I began to wear New Yorker-style fedoras and when traveling, in my suit and hat, I can't tell you how many stewardesses commented favorably on the look and many would mention fond memories of their father and other gentlemen wearing hats. . .they really like the ‘look.’ "

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.

58 posted on 05/15/2015 5:24:29 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office.")
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To: Tax-chick
And Chanel knits.

Oh, gosh, YES.


59 posted on 05/15/2015 5:26:50 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office.")
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To: nickcarraway
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.

So, like now, only more honest.

60 posted on 05/15/2015 5:28:37 PM PDT by Jim Noble (If you can't discriminate, you are not free)
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