If anything watching Mad Men explains why America is the way it is. It's just a bunch of people being nostalgic for a time that never was, while drink and smoking too much. Personally I like Joan's Arc. 

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.

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.

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.

LOL this is like that friend who posted every Sunday night during the Game of Thrones era how they “just don’t get the hype about that show; won't catch me watching it.” Anyway, congrats Emily! Good job 👍 Proud of you

Enforcement of the rules and portrayal in the media are two separate things - the ITF and Grand Slams don’t really have much to do with how the media portrays players, and I think it’s absolutely right to blame the media for their treatment of players like the Williams sisters, as I said above they’ve had to deal with…

It’s not about the enforcement of the rules. It’s about how they’re all portrayed in the media.

Yeah that language is actually 100% in the contract, do you really think Osaka is the first professional tennis player to try and get out of this whole thing?

You bet wrong. https://www.itftennis.com/media/2495/grand-slam-rulebook-2020-f.pdf

“Combine that with the pass that White men always get in sports and in life, and that’s why you see Novak Djokovic (breaking rackets) or John McEnroe throwing tantrums without much commentary and Serena Williams’ outfits are the subject of days-long controversy.”

This is a sermon, not an article. And like all sermons, it is full of subjective interpretations, flamboyant statements, and outright lies. Too many people are trying to make her into Rosa Parks. She could not perform due to health reasons so she withdrew (after failing to get special treatment). That’s how it is…

The problem here is that she didn’t frame the issue that way — she instead said the problem was with the media and that she wasn’t going to answer their questions any longer, full stop.

If she said she needed to address her mental health and that the questioning from media was in part if not wholly responsible for it,…

Every job has unpleasant and awful aspects that are a part of it (harrassment, especially those aspects coming from media, is obviously wrong, and the reporters asking those questions should be unemployed. I am only linking this to actual respectful writers). It’s still a part of the job.

I understand her argument, that media questioning was causing her emotional distress to the point where it could become debilitating, if not on the court then off it.

However, like any other job, she has a responsibility to report to her employer (French Open/Grand Slam officials) her concerns and then work to address…

I absolutely support her paying the fine in lieu of doing interviews. She did, however, sign a contract that stipulates either press events or a fine, so the press is absolutely part of the job (or the fine is, which is the road she took.) I think the org is being shitty that she called their bluff and opted to just…

Not to apologize for this genre, which is certainly icky, but isn’t it a pretty well-established fact (from cops, witnesses and people who knew him socially) that Bundy was fairly charming and good-looking (though it’s amazing what was considered hot in the 70s), and that’s why he was able to talk women into going…

Let’s not forget that Travis Barker had a reality show before Kourtney (or any other Kardashian) did! He’s plenty fame hungry in his own right. He knows exactly what he’s doing here.

oh ffs

Bennifarts.