I also feel like Mad Men is one of the few shows made for adults.

I also feel like Mad Men is one of the few shows made for adults.

Kind of like costumes & masks & drag & new names & roles or even something like being a foreigner in a different country allow us to behave in a more liberated way because we think "that's how that person would behave"— but the truth is that, in that temporary freedom, we are probably being our most authentic selves.

Kind of like costumes & masks & drag & new names & roles or even something like being a foreigner in a different country allow us to behave in a more liberated way because we think "that's how that person would behave"— but the truth is that, in that temporary freedom, we are probably being our most authentic selves.

Definitely— literally taking on a new identity liberates him to be the kind of man he wants to be— which is interesting because technically we all have that freedom & actually partake in all our lives but not without constantly putting parameters on it. But with Don Draper, what we see is a subtle universal…

Definitely— literally taking on a new identity liberates him to be the kind of man he wants to be— which is interesting because technically we all have that freedom & actually partake in all our lives but not without constantly putting parameters on it. But with Don Draper, what we see is a subtle universal…

Mad Men will be analyzed forever for its ideas on identity-making alone.

Mad Men will be analyzed forever for its ideas on identity-making alone.

American Proust? No…you can't be serious.

American Proust? No…you can't be serious.

I'm pretty cynical about the book ("let's subvert America by aimlessly driving American cars across the country and wasting gas") but I think it still has some raw power. I used to teach literature at a university in Beijing and we read it as part of our "20th century American Lit" course. In class when I asked people…

I'm pretty cynical about the book ("let's subvert America by aimlessly driving American cars across the country and wasting gas") but I think it still has some raw power. I used to teach literature at a university in Beijing and we read it as part of our "20th century American Lit" course. In class when I asked people…

Todd's gone Dada and right before the holidays too.

Todd's gone Dada and right before the holidays too.

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Uh, what makes this a case of domestic violence? I have no idea what went on prior to this incident and neither did any of you at the time this story was posted. To me, this is a case of attempted murder, just like the charge laid against this man by the courts. I think calling it domestic abuse or violence is piling…

Uh, what makes this a case of domestic violence? I have no idea what went on prior to this incident and neither did any of you at the time this story was posted. To me, this is a case of attempted murder, just like the charge laid against this man by the courts. I think calling it domestic abuse or violence is piling…

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