This just in: human beings fixating on a woman’s famously gigantic breasts.

Mad Men frequently acknowledged the way women who look like Christina Hendricks are sexualized and harassed by men. Her arc in the show ends with her leaving McCann because she can’t get anyone to take her seriously because of her gender and her looks. She walks away with millions and starts her own business.

I don’t remember anyone lionizing Don Draper.

Pffft....I don’t even own a television set! Well...I mean...I do. But I never watch it! Except to peruse only the most educational documentaries. But that’s it! Mostly....

Exactly. Talk about a dumb take. Anyone who actually watched Mad Men would realise that hot take couldn’t be further from the truth. And if any dude who watched it took away that Don was some kind of hero, that would just tell me that particular dude isn’t very bright.

I love that show and have watched it through about three times. Her character’s treatment by the men around her was one of the focal points of the show; not in a garish way or one that glamorizes lasciviousness, but her sexualization by those around her (and the ways that she sometimes uses it as a tool) is presented…

Joan’s body was basically its own character and the undergarments women tortured themselves with at the time were horrific and changed women’s bodies to meet the structural ideal of the time. Christina Hendricks is a talented and beautiful woman who became famous playing someone with a bangin’ body, that was not a…

I don’t remember anyone lionizing Don Draper. He was an asshole. He did terrible things. Even when he tried to be good, he just couldn’t. But eventually we learned a little about his childhood, and what made him what he was.

I loved Mad Men but there was definitely a subset of straight men who obsessed over her boobs. And I can only imagine the press corps during those stupid junkets. 

I’m with you here. This really feels like another opportunity to look around at the culture and history of so many aspects of American life and ask where it came from and what it’s about. There are so many times when white people (and I’m saying this as a white person) have sort of yadda-yadda-yadda’d away the racist…

Yeah, you have to love that.

The queen is exempt from being sued for discrimination based on sex or race by the people she hires. It doesn't require much of leap to get from this being the accepted practice at the palaces to the racism that forced Megan and Harry to leave.

So the Queen is exempt, but her grandson’s wife is fair game for trumped up bullshit? 

Hungry. Shit...can I try again?

But when fans, owners, and reporters alike demand so much from athletes, they become something like commodities in the public eye.

Counterpoints:

1. Mare was basically a mash-up of Happy Valley and Broadchurch, not just Happy Valley.

The whole thing is just plain irksome. Like, you have these grown men who obsess about sports trying to goad you into saying anything click-baity and reminding you that you have to talk to them because you signed a contract. It’s like some creep who demands that you let him come in your place because he bought you…

I have never understood the argument that a show was so good the first season that a second season would diminish it. And I don’t understand advocating for a show that you like to end. Shows get canceled when audiences stop watching. If we are all wiling to watch a second season of this show (and be honest - WE ARE ),…

There were two seasons of happy valley which I truly believe this show was subconsciously influenced by and it turned out just fine...

Nuns don’t get much power. They’re told what to do and how to do it a lot. And it’s not uncommon for them to end up as sex slaves to the priests as often as they diddle children. Don’t forget the forced abortions that come with that same territory.