Mad Men Seasons 2-3

This is a show I find difficult to post on, I think because I neither think that it’s either brilliantly feminist or something that encourages women to put up with sexism. I think it’s an excellent work of deconstruction about an idealized time period, particularly when it comes to the idea of the happy and perfect 60s housewife, but that making most of the plotlines and POVs center around the sexist men keeps it from being as successful for me as it could be otherwise. Mind you, if asked if I consider it sexist or feminist, I’d say it’s a feminist view of a sexist world, but in many ways, it’s also very much a second wave feminist viewpoint (that is, one specifically concerned with sexism that heterosexual white women face from heterosexual white men with other considerations, though sometimes acknowledged, being far secondary), and also one that I sometimes think sees itself as commenting more on sexism women no longer have to deal with, without a lot of awareness of the sexism women still have to deal with. So while I appreciate it a lot and find it very involving while I watch it, I don’t love it the way I want to.

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