Comments on: Don’t Go Changing, ‘Mad Men’

By: George Pal

George Pal — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:13:51 +0000

No reference to the past may be made without eventually remarking on its critical moral and social failings. I suspect Mad Men will make of its denouement a ‘teaching moment’. Everyone will be made to understand class, dignity, elegance, maleness and femaleness, are no substitute for right thinking. I hate it when people start to ‘grow’.

By the way, cursive may be going the way of the times table. Found myself defending cursive not too long ago against the charge of… well, I’m not sure what the charge against it was… superannuation I think – why learn to write when you can text.

By: W. C. Taqiyya

W. C. Taqiyya — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:00:14 +0000

I’m sorry love, Mad Men does nothing but reinforce the myth that ‘real’ men of yesteryear drank, smoked and fornicated themselves into semi-conscious financial success. Which, if true, would mean that our contemporary nihilism should inspire wondrous wealth. Girls today have no role models, they are products of single mother ‘homes’. So, it’s to be expected that ‘real’ men for them means self-destructive, abusive, distant and uncontrolled morons. Just like mommy had. Mad Men is a good title. Too bad most people miss the point.

[Yours is indeed the liberal, feminist take on the world, facts be damned. And yes, I know you probably call yourself conservative or libertarian.—IM]

By: Nell Bowen

Nell Bowen — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:38:33 +0000

I can only watch movies from the 30″s-50″s, and of course well done Victorian Drama; this means TCM or my own collection. Many people have mentioned Mad Men to me as something I would like, but I have yet to try it for all the reasons listed above language, pen holding etc…. These things eventually seep through.

People today simply cannot portray people of yesteryear. We are too self-obsessed, adolescent, lacking taste, class, culture, intellect, character and fortitude. Women have taken on the wardrobe of street hookers and the personality of hen-peckers, meanwhile men dress as pubescent boys or pathetic hippies-Calgon take me away!

If you want the real thing without disappointment stick with the originals.