Mad Women
Finally, I have come across an article from someone who agrees with my opinion of the show "Mad Men." I am have expressed my opinion in this blog a couple of times, but just to recap:
- It gives people the wrong impression of the advertising business today. It is easy to get caught up in the "glamor" of the show, but let's remember, that is definitely not the world we work in today.
- It is absolutely the most atrocious display of degradation towards women I have ever seen. While I recognize that may be close to the truth of the times represented, I have no desire to see it on television today.
A female at Advertising Age had this to say:
"'Mad Men' is glamorous, it romanticizes our harried and hassled industry, and it lets us indulge our nostalgia for the Wild West pioneer days of the ad biz. Ah, yes -- there were the three-martini lunches, the client boondoggles, the all-night benders after the annual budget meeting. There were no casual Fridays; the sharp-looking suits you see on TV were how all the dapper Don Drapers dressed. Men were in charge and women were in pursuit. The married ones were mild-mannered housewives, some desperate, some not. The working girls were cute dollybirds willing to do anything to catch a rich husband. Good times if you were a guy in the business; not so much if you were a gal.I caught one of the recent reruns from the first season, and, just to stay current, tried to watch it all the way through. What raised the bile in the back of my throat was when the ad guys stumbled across the eternal question 'What do women want?' and the flippant reply was 'Who cares?' I don't know about Leo Burnett or J. Walter Thompson, but ad legend David Ogilvy rolled in his grave at that moment. Here's a guy who showed he understood what side his bread was buttered on when he said, 'The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.'"