- Women didn't have real jobs, they were either secretaries or housewives
- Heels were the only acceptable footwear for women
- It was socially acceptable to smoke anywhere, anytime, including at your desk at work
- It was socially acceptable to drink anywhere, anytime, including at your desk at work. Gotta keep that bottle of 151 around to get through the day...
- The men look impeccable all the time, none of this business casual bullshit
- Nobody knew that smoking and drinking while pregnant was bad, expecting mothers could still hit the bars and clubs
- Extramarital affairs and getting pregnant by sleeping with married men or married men impregnating single women seems to happen with regularity
On second thought, social progressivism and anti-drug movements seem to have some benefits as well...
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Mad Men, or, Why The Fifties Were Great
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Sixties...
Let us also add to that list:
*SPOILER ALERT*
-It's perfectly plausible for someone to get pregnant and not notice it until their water breaks nine months later.
*/SPOILER ALERT*
kberlin, stop owning me on my own blog. sixties, fifties, all the same to me...
It's no big...in the time frame the show's concerned with, the decades were pretty much the same anyways.
Now I wish I hadn't stopped watching after the first few episodes of season 2.
Something I might have to look into now...
Scratch part of my productivity out. I think this is why I don't own a TV.
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