From the New York Post TV Week for 6/12-23, Prime Time Adam Buckman, "TV jukebox pumps up summer shows":
"...'Mad Men' is the best new show of the summer. This series depicts the world of Madison Avenue advertising in 1961...For 'Mad Men', which premieres July 19, they have recreated the chauvinistic (emphasis mine) world of mid-town Manhattan at the dawn of the 1960s. People smoke all over the place - at their desks, in restaurants, even in elevators. Electric typewriters and push-button phones are considered the latest in 'new technology.' Everybody drinks, even during the day, and the men shamelessly harass their female co-workers, none of whom are co-equals."
So there you have it, the pc view of the Past as unmitigated Evil (the only thing missing from Buckman's commentary is back-alley abortions). This is the way men behaved when left to their own devices in those days without our current progressive legislation, new laws always being a necessity of course. Men of the Past being gentlemen was all a big hoax after all like Loch Ness. Puritanism is definitely the way to go, I mean smoking and drinking and flirtation in the office?? Call Mayor Bloomberg!! You can't come up with anything good about the Past you pc'ers? like, oh I don't know, intact families and low crime rates?
and why is the New York Post, widely considered the only truly conservative paper around these days, throwing around liberal buzzwords like homophobic (if homophobic means analphobic I plead guilty, got a problem with that)? And what's up with the word "preggers" now peppering Page Six, I mean that is sooooo gay. Just the other day some gay guy was reading about the latest celeb being preggers and said "that's way too gay for me."
you know, i hate it when you stop at your local gas station and you're checking out the porn and you have your dvds selected and there's a nice young girl at the checkout, you feel like a germ. i mean can't the hindu guy check me out and what's up with the so-called "foreign" stuff these days, you rent what you think is some nice homegrown japanese erotica and there he is, the american fabio of porn, alex sanders skullf***ing some woman who looks under duress.
ReplyDeleteso what you're saying is you like the old stuff, the realistic brits with pimples on their bums? here here to the past
ReplyDeleteGuys guys, can we get back on track please?
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ReplyDeletehey z it's called Progress, sounds like you'd like to take a crap in an outhouse
ReplyDeleteThere's the past and then there's prehistoric. I'm simply saying why does everyone seem to have this hatred of the past, it's like yeah people smoked and drank and still do, it's like with every smoker and alcoholic there's a reverse puritan trying to fix him or her.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone use the term "family values" anymore? Seems like even that Republican slogan has gone by the wayside.
ReplyDeleteYou are not the only one who wishes the hands of time could reverse, even just a little.
"Does anyone use the term 'family values' anymore?"
ReplyDeleteThe "Father Knows Best" and "Leave it to Beaver" era is now almost universally condemned and ridiculed, people prefer the age of easy divorce even if it's bad for the kids.