What Will It Take for Me to Stop Pining For Don Draper?
What is it going to take Don Draper? What is it going to take for me to stop swooning over you?
The incessant infidelities in season one didn't seem to do the trick. That's what men did in the fifties right? It just meant their wives had to do less work.
And the whole lying about your past thing? Who doesn't like to make their childhood seem better than it was? When I was in fifth grade I invented a sibling because I thought being an only child wasn't very cool.
And this week when you drunkenly groped your loyal secretary, did the deed and then treated her like a common prostitute in the morning, sure I made an unpleasant face at you, but I didn't give up hope that underneath it all you're still the man for me.
I was chatting with my girlfriend Jackie about this quandary and she too doesn't know what it will take to end her Draper love affair (mind you Jackie is a very happily married woman with a loyal and sexy husband).
"I think he'd have to beat his children," she said after thinking about what Don would have to do to finally be put on her sh*t list. "But not 1950s spanking because that would still be hot. He'd have to burn them with a hot poker or something. Child abusers aren't hot."
It's true they aren't. Maybe if he drowned puppies or left an elderly woman in a hot car in the sun? Elder and animal abuse also make someone unsexy.
Another friend wasn't even phased by Don's innuendo laced "bonus" to Allison (for those of you who aren't fans of the show, after the two of them got busy following the office party, Don gave her a Christmas card with two crisp fifties enclosed, $684.32 in today's dollars)? "She kind of asked for it, didn't she?"
That just shows how immune this man has made us to his wily indiscretions. He can do no wrong. But the women on the show do nothing to inspire our sympathies either. Did his secretary push him away? Did she say, no thank you for this sex drunk boss? No she did not.
Has Betty Draper ever done anything to make the audience feel sorry for her? She is such a cold fish, even I have cheered on Don's adulterous behavior with his children's school teacher.
Much of this can be laid to rest on the shoulders of creator and writer Matthew Weiner, who has made Draper impermeable to women's disgust. There is also Jon Hamm's portrayal of Draper, and the fact that he is devastatingly handsome (and the fact that we know in real life Hamm is a good guy in a long-term committed relationship with girlfriend Jennifer Westfeldt).
Then there's the age-old female desire to fix a flawed man and Don is just that, flawed, but not yet un-fixable and until he reaches that point I don't think I'll be able to stop my swooning.
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...You ARE aware that this show is set in he 60s, right? Not the 1950s, which you mentioned twice in your article.
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by destroying his marriage vows and potentially bringing diseases into the marital bed. NOT sexy at all. i don't care if he looks like george clooney--his crappy attitude and the terrible
The word you want is 'fazed' not 'phased'. Pet peeve, sorry.
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It is mindboggling how low the standards AOL sets for it's writers are. I've seen 11th graders that were better writers.
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blaming the wife for the husband's infidelities? wow...this is a cheater's M.O. looks like you're easy prey for a predatory cheater.
this man IS abusive...by destroying his marriage vows and potentially bringing diseases into the marital bed. NOT sexy at all. i don't care if he looks like george clooney--his crappy attitude and the terrible way he treats people make him UGLY.
i've found it to be true that even the hottest guy will look like an ogre once you find out he's a jerk.
i really hope you don't think this way about men because you're headed for an abusive, unfaithful relationship.
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I have wathed this show from the beginning and I am hooked...I couldnt wait for this season to start....
Don Draper is a gorgeous man...
The women are acceptional....
I hope this show goes on and on forever...
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If Don Draper were alive today he would be about 90 years old. Could you imagine Don as an old man? But he smokes too much and would of dropped dead of lung cancer years ago. Maybe that's how the series ends. Don Draper gets the big C and dies, or his daughter Sally kills him.
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i liked the hot bschool teacher from last year.why isnt she back?
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I'm a big fan of Mad Men. I really love the show - BUT - I can't stand it when they have scenes with that perverted youngster who is infatuated with Betty Draper. I couldn't stand it last year, and this year it started to gag me. PLEASE, PLEASE write out this part of it. There's enough perverted sickies in the news, without having one in my favorite show.
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Is Mad Men really that interesting? I mean to the point that anyone would fixate on one of it's cast? Nothing I've seen about this show even remotely interests me enough to tune it in.
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Shouldn't you be trolling the Justin Bieber boards?
Mad Men is interesting because it gives us a look back to when men were still allowed to be men. Before men became watered down & stomped on by the modern Americanized female. Before Alan Alda showed up with his non-threatening yellow sweaters.
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You are what 25 or 30? You obviously didn't grow up with the fathers we had...the cheating was the least of it. Many dad's had the emotional involvement with the family of a brick wall. Other's were less lucky. We all knew who's dad was abusing his wife and kids without losing a minute of sleep, while the good ol' boys at the local police station said it was a "family matter". If you didn't live through it, you wouldn't want to return to it.
@ Gene. I know what you mean. My grandfather used to walk out on his family all the time. With him, it was always booze and women. The last time he was gone for over a year, he had run away with his best friends wife, leaving his wife and 5 kids to fend for themselves. They were actually starving at a point. My dad had to steal fruit off of neighbors trees to eat! Grandpa didn't return until after his wife started to die of cancer, and his younger kids almost put in fostercare. I guess my grandfather grew up after that,but it wasn't until my dad was 14 or 15 years old. I would much rather have my father who always told us he loved us, read us stories, played with us, and worked 12 hour days so he could support us.
Todd, you sad little person.
The program is so perfect, that it pulls us into the era. The time-set is as much a "character" as the people on the show.
This is why we don't wince at Draper's behavior or the standards of the day .... It's because for one hour each week, we are THERE.
By the way, "Mad Men" is currently in the year 1964. Not the 50s. And if Don Draper were alive today, he'd be 80-85 years old.
Probably living in Boca, soaking up the "Sunset Daze" life.
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