Comments on: Mad Men TV Show: The Irony Of Manliness From Yesteryear

By: karl anglin

karl anglin — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:09:41 +0000

Mad Men is a reaction to every thing
that America has become in the 21st
century.

By: NKJ

NKJ — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:32:34 +0000

The only woman I’d ever marry is one who dresses like Peggy. I’m serious

By: A Pretty Mess » Blog Archive » "Mad Men" and Their Mad, Glad, Sad, Bad Women

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:03:54 +0000

[...] a man’s point of view, I went to Kevin at Return To Manliness. He wrote a fascinating post about "Mad Men’s" "manliness" quotient. We typically look to the past to find manliness and manly behavior [...]

By: The Ironly of Manliness

The Ironly of Manliness — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:36:52 +0000

[...] More here. [...]

By: Mike Bates

Mike Bates — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:33:16 +0000

I haven’t seen it, though I’ve heard really good things. It’s on our Netflix queue. My wife and I really like HBO’s Big Love. Its main character is, for all intents and purposes, trying to be a good man (by his own set of morals), and it has examples of what happens when manhood is not checked and balanced. I don’t know if it’s a smart show, but it’s touching and the characters grow on you very quickly.

http://www.the-common-man.com

By: Hayden Tompkins

Hayden Tompkins — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:13:12 +0000

We in the Tompkins house love that show too! (I want every stitch of clothing that Joan wears; I would rock the heck out of it. Anywho.)

The scene that probably bothered me the most is the office ‘party’ where one of the guys chases a secretary around a forcibly lifts up her dress so he can ‘see what color underwear she’s wearing’. Even more shocking? She didn’t slap him.

The great thing about the show is that they DO manage to portray women of strength (like Menken) even in such a constricted society.