Tag: Betty Draper
A Chasm in the TV Space-Time Continuum, Or: Rachel Green Fucks Don Draper
Just when you thought scenes of Rachel Green Alex Levy boning Don Draper Paul Marks (not the other way around, as some might sexistly presume) [Read More…]
That Littering Scene in Mad Men Cuts to the Core of How Corporations Would End Up Pulling A Fast One on Their Consumers
Amid the many scenes from Mad Men that still linger in one’s mind, one of the oddest (at least to modern eyes) is the moment [Read More…]
When Betty Was Good
There are numerous mothers in pop culture history with a bad rap. Mrs. Bates, Mrs. White, Mrs. Vorhees. But Betty Draper (January Jones) might be [Read More…]
The Gender Double Standard of Drinking in the 60s & Beyond
It was at the end of the 1960s that a staged protest by Betty Friedan and other feminist activists supporting the National Organization for Women [Read More…]
The Self-Quarantine of Betty Draper
As it’s already been noted, Americans experiencing the so-called hell of self-quarantine and the lockdown measures thereof (though it will never compare to the actions [Read More…]
Telling People Not to Go Outside Is the New Telling People Not to Smoke
It is ingrained in human nature, for whatever reason, to do the opposite of what one is told–particularly if that form of telling is severe [Read More…]
Americans Thinking They’re in Bona Fide Quarantine Presently Understand Why 50s Housewives Went Insane
In 2011, after three Cornell alumni of Long Island privilege used said privilege to nurture the success of a website called Betches Love This, which [Read More…]
Where Depraved Housewives are Concerned, Betty Draper Has Nothing On Hunter Conrad in Swallow
As far as The Bell Jar moments go in terms of applying to housewives forcing themselves to be resigned to watching any other potential they [Read More…]
The Merciful Return of January Jones as a Blacked Out Housewife
While January Jones may have played the bizarre role of Melissa Shart in the equally bizarre cancelled Fox series (because you usually can’t say Fox [Read More…]
No One Hates Betty Draper-Francis More Than Matthew Weiner
It is said that sometimes we hate the thing we create. In Matthew Weiner’s case, that thing is the elegantly neurotic Betty Draper (January Jones), [Read More…]
