25 9 / 2012
Christina Hendricks at the 2012 Emmys, September 23rd
Glorious.
13 8 / 2012
“Generally, women can’t do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth
04 8 / 2012
Your Facebook is your Don Draper and your Tumblr is your Dick Whitman.
Your Facebook wants everyone to know the Jaguar contract is signed. Your Tumblr is still crying in a foxhole in Korea.
03 8 / 2012
“Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.”
— Don DeLillo, Underworld
29 7 / 2012
The cast of Mad Men on Inside the Actors Studio
Holy hell, Jon Hamm is talking about losing his mother to colon cancer at age 10 and the impact it had on his subsequent relationships, being diagnosed with depression and losing his father at 20, etc.
Can you imaging losing a parent at that age? (A few of y’all probably can because you did.) I don’t know what I would have done. Being a child is terrifying enough on its own. Bless you, Juan Jamon.
29 7 / 2012
Christina Hendricks at the 16th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, July 2005
Christina is a vision no matter what, but I wish she would make more red carpet appearances without all the corsetry and crazy push-up bras. Like this!
13 6 / 2012
TMAMH and I had an argument about whether or not it’s significant that Don - and only Don - is out of alignment with his window.
(Source: thechosenjuan)
11 6 / 2012
I think that the Mad Men writers should have everyone commit suicide one by one, until the only people who are left are Peggy and Joan and they adopt Sally Draper and hire Sal and start their own agency.
11 6 / 2012
08 6 / 2012
Did Mad Men Take Period Drama Too Far?
[Warning: Mad Men spoilers ahead!]
Those of us watching Mad Men on Sunday night saw a young character, Sally Draper, get her period for the first time. Like, really saw it. A lot of times, moments like these are shown indirectly, but Mad Men showed it directly, with a shot of Sally’s underwear, where there was a bright red spot of blood.
As soon as I saw it, I thought “Oh, some people are not going to like that!” And then I thought, “And that problem is exactly what U by Kotex is trying to stop!”
Unsurprisingly, a lot of the recaps I read mentioned this moment, along with some kind of “gross-out” commentary. One of the worst was this TV Guide recap, where writer Damian Holbrook complained:
OK, not be all indelicate or anything, but come on. Did we really need to see that? ….last night, the always stylish (and sometimes sluggish) series did something we just can’t get behind…they had to go and give us a shot of Sal pulling down her panties to gaze at the situation, apparently so we could all feel as ill as she did at that moment.
He then went on to say that he envied the character who hung himself later in the episode.
Really, Mr. Holbrook? Really?
It’s interesting to me that he brought up the dead body in the episode, because that was what I had a real problem with in that episode. I am 26 years old and I had nightmares that night about the scenes that featured Lane Pryce post-mortem. Why is he OK with showing several shots of a lifeless body hanging from the office ceiling, but not OK with showing a moment that is totally normal and natural for much of Mad Men’s audience? Why is the blood, and not the black and blue corpse, the “gross-out shot”?
For what it’s worth, Sally was frightened by the blood in her underpants too; she ran home to her mother, with whom she has a tense relationship. When Betty explained to Sally that she was a woman now, it was exactly the kind of sweet and awkward moment that so often happens when a girl gets her period for the first time. I know exactly how Sally felt when she told her mother she didn’t want to talk about it, and I understand why Betty kept on talking. But unlike the TV columnist, Sally — and all of us women — will eventually come to accept the reality of an unexpected spot of blood in our underwear. It happens. It’s what our bodies do. Get over it.
I’m not sure how we can make people — and especially young women — understand that women’s periods aren’t scary, bad, or shameful if we don’t talk about them openly and depict them in a realistic way in popular culture. I was glad to see that most of the comments on the article echoed that sentiment, but I’m still scratching my head over what editor allowed it to be written in the first place. Immature articles like this simply reinforce the idea that there is something shameful about getting your period. And there’s nothing shameful about it.
- Rachel, U by K Peer Panelist
Most young girls deal with the sight of their own bloody underwear, but grown men can’t deal with an image of someone else’s bloody underwear on TV? That is so weak and pitiful.
(via green-gold)
