If you know the story, even Don Draper doesn’t have Don Draper. (I loved the line in one episode where Don asks a photographer how he should pose for a picture and the photographer says “Just be yourself”. Superb writing.)
I don’t have the right programming to watch that show. I don’t think I am missing anything life-changing. …I really don’t want to go back in time to when people were told they could only do things that were either ‘manly’ or ‘womanly.’
@TSR… I’ll give you that. I’d go back to being a kid in the 60’s. I don’t remember any of the bad stuff that went on because I was too young. Being a kid was great back then.…But as an adult male reviled for being in the military, or a woman who was told she had no business in a particular field in the workforce? No thanks.…Each era has good and bad. Right now there seems to be a lot of ‘bad’, and I do think that the ‘information age’ has scarred us, even as it gives us access to other parts of the globe at a moment’s notice. There was always strife before, though we didn’t know to what extent. Media has allowed us to view the world and all it’s warts. I believe that this has actually hardened us as individuals, and I don’t think that’s a good thing, in the long run. …Many people now look at the world with a jaundiced eye. And that’s too bad. There’s a lot of good stuff out there. We just have to remember to look for it. And not make fun of the ones who do look for it.
pschearer Premium Member almost 11 years ago
If you know the story, even Don Draper doesn’t have Don Draper. (I loved the line in one episode where Don asks a photographer how he should pose for a picture and the photographer says “Just be yourself”. Superb writing.)
vwdualnomand almost 11 years ago
well, you are no joan or peggy, or megan or most of the staff at sterling cooper.
Thomas Scott Roberts creator almost 11 years ago
Dana’s humoring Rita until she forgets all about it.
sbchamp almost 11 years ago
I don’t even see Pete
johnzakour Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Dana was just making a fast observational comment. And not having a Don Draper may be a good thing.
invertedyesterday almost 11 years ago
I don’t have the right programming to watch that show. I don’t think I am missing anything life-changing. …I really don’t want to go back in time to when people were told they could only do things that were either ‘manly’ or ‘womanly.’
RalphZIggy almost 11 years ago
people still think that way, they just have to put on an act
johnzakour Premium Member almost 11 years ago
My dad was actually an ad man in the 60s. I had no idea this stuff was going on. :)
rroush Premium Member almost 11 years ago
In the 60’s, Rita probably wouldn’t be a Veep. That wouldn’t be so bad.
invertedyesterday almost 11 years ago
@TSR… I’ll give you that. I’d go back to being a kid in the 60’s. I don’t remember any of the bad stuff that went on because I was too young. Being a kid was great back then.…But as an adult male reviled for being in the military, or a woman who was told she had no business in a particular field in the workforce? No thanks.…Each era has good and bad. Right now there seems to be a lot of ‘bad’, and I do think that the ‘information age’ has scarred us, even as it gives us access to other parts of the globe at a moment’s notice. There was always strife before, though we didn’t know to what extent. Media has allowed us to view the world and all it’s warts. I believe that this has actually hardened us as individuals, and I don’t think that’s a good thing, in the long run. …Many people now look at the world with a jaundiced eye. And that’s too bad. There’s a lot of good stuff out there. We just have to remember to look for it. And not make fun of the ones who do look for it.
WF11 almost 11 years ago
Rita has a great expression in the second panel. Even she is seeing the “problem” that Dana is pointing out!
Jeff0811 almost 11 years ago
I don’t see any Don Draper types, but I do see a lot of John “hams”.
ChrisV almost 11 years ago
Why don’t you ‘POOF’ one of them into Don Draper then?