Comments on: Mad Men Open Thread

By: sbg

sbg — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:47:47 +0000

I tried and wanted to like Mad Men because all the cool kids said I should, but I couldn’t get into it, alas.

I embrace being a statistical anomaly.

By: Roberta Lipp

Roberta Lipp — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:51:23 +0000

Wait a minute. The Lipp sisters are ALSO Shapelings? Wow. We really have been away.

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:55:03 +0000

this post is completely off topic, but i found an article i thought would be of interest to many of you. it might infuriate you, but it’s worth discussing because it show, again, an enormous lack of understanding when it comes to fat (and poverty)….very interesting. take a look:

http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/the_end_of_the_war_on_fat.php

By: Nomie

Nomie — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:19:35 +0000

Wait a minute. The Lipp sisters are ALSO Shapelings?

Excuse me while I go over here and quietly flail in glee for a moment!

By: Colleen (but not prettypear Colleen)

Colleen (but not prettypear Colleen) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:42:04 +0000

Hey, since this is an open thread, and I know a lot of you also read Shakesville, can I ask if anyone else is unable to read the comments there? I can read comments here, obviously, and at some other blogs, but they won’t come up at Shakesville.

Alas, I have not seen Mad Men, so I have nothing of substance to add to that discussion.

By: tadpoledrain

tadpoledrain — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:37:04 +0000

This is totally OT, but I just posted something in the “Help Us Pick More Favorites” that I can’t find, and since that thread seems to have died out, I’m hoping someone reading this thread will be able to help me out.

I am not in fact actually 100% certain that post I’m looking for is from SP… It’s a discussion of why/how we as a society might have grown fatter because of diet culture, and basically says:
Take 2 groups of people.
Leave group 1 alone.
Mess with the heads of group 2 such that they engage in all sorts of diet behavior.
Which group do you think will end up fatter overall? Group 2 it is!

Does anyone know what this is or where I can find it? It’s been bugging me like crazy.

By: glittersocks

glittersocks — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:16:59 +0000

I went to high school with Christina Hendricks and was a fellow drama geek with her. She’s always been a curvy girl, in fact some of the mean older drama girls nicknamed her “the freshman with boobs.” She has never been anywhere approaching fat and on TV it’s almost confusing to me how someone so thin can look so – hubba hubba curvaceous. I love the show and I’m incredibly happy for her.

By: Bree

Bree — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:14:59 +0000

I tried to watch an episode of Mad Men and just couldn’t get into it. (Call me when y’all do a Life on Mars topic).

But, it is nice to see people talk about a TV show that has nothing to do with voting people off or watching so-called celebrity judges make disparaging remarks. I think competition shows should be like old school Star Search—where the judges are not seen, not heard, and the public doesn’t get to vote.

OK, enough derailing the thead.

By: Sal

Sal — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:56:37 +0000

I have been enjoying Mad Men for two seasons.

I am so old, that I remember actually wearing dresses like the ones the women wear. In fact in the first season, Betty wore a dress very much one I sewed as a project in home-economics class in 1960!

By: Liza

Liza — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:41:25 +0000

So the skit on SNL that was “Don Drapers Guide to Meeting Women” (or wev) was fantastic, and I’ve never even watched the show. But now I want to.