My Report: What Do Madmen Have to Do With Feminazis?

Rush was talking about the show Mad Men today, as in Madison Avenue advertising men in the 1960s. It's a show I've never seen, but according to Rush it re-creates the 1960s perfectly.

"Mad Men" Shocks the Feminazis

Here's what Rush says:

the women smoke when they're pregnant, they drink when they're pregnant. The kids play with plastic bags from the dry cleaners.

and

Now, this Mad Men story. This is Meghan Daum [a reviewer]: "The fourth season of 'Mad Men' starts Sunday, and with it another round of opportunities to both marvel and gasp at how much things have changed since the early 1960s. Much of the genius of the show, of course, lies in its ferocious attention to period details. From the entrenched womanizing and nonstop drinking and smoking (even while pregnant!) to children who play with plastic dry-cleaning bags and family picnics that end with a flourish of litter shaken insouciantly onto the grass, 'Mad Men' leaves no antediluvian stone unturned." I just laugh myself silly when I read these feminazis looking back on that period, and they can't believe it. They are appalled.

Rush is of course kind of silly here. It's not that Meghan Daum can't "believe" that woman smoked in the 1960s. Any more than she probably can't believe that they wore dresses and girls going to school weren't allowed to wear jeans, were paid less than half what a man made for the same work, were expected to quit their jobs if they got pregnant, and so on.

It's the conditions of the 1960s that have to get the attention of the young women of today. They don't know just how good they have it, all because the women of the 1960s decided that they deserved a bit more from The Establishment than they were getting.

Women who grew up during the 1960s would not be appalled by what they see in Mad Men, anymore than by what they see in the James Bond movies of the 1960s, and so on. Women were sex objects back then and very rarely anything more.

Today women can do anything they want. And they are the ones who should be appalled by the conditions in the 1960s (assuming they even watch this show, which I doubt) and adamant that such conditions do not return.

Of course I'm not talking about the current craze of lawsuits. Of suing someone because the coffee you put between your legs was too hot, etc. But there was a lotof injustices toward women from the dawn of time until the late 1960s, just as there were to other minorities. And those who fought to advance the cause of equality for all should not be ridiculed or forgotten.