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08/27/09
My grandfather suffered from PTSD, but of course because of his generation he went his whole life without being treated. He was a tough-love, gruff sort of man who clearly loved my mom and my sister and I (and my grandmother!), but just simply didn't express his feelings very openly. My grandmother, similarly, behaves very 'ladylike' and is shocked about how women act these days.
I don't know, maybe they are the anomalies...
08/26/09
ask anyone who is in their early to mid 70's now about what the 50's were really like and you'll get a completely different story. folks in their 70's now came of age in the 50's in high school and college. teens could drink legally then. in bars. in public. all the early beatniks of the 50's? baby boomers didn't invent smoking weed or doing drugs...the jazz cats of the 50's did. most if not all of the ideals of the 60's had their roots in the 50's. but, y'know, it's easy to paint the entire decade it as strict and reserved when the kids at woodstock were running around with little red wagons watching howdy doody in the 50's.
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08/26/09
Moreover, my grandfathers both came of age in the fifties, and one of them was so affected by his war experiences and the tragic death of his first child that he drank himself to death--took longer than he planned, I'm sure--and the other, in his dotage, is prone to telling my husband only stories of the Pacific theater, still so fresh and disturbing that he thinks I should be shielded from them. It's possible that only now that we have large numbers of young people coming back from the Middle East with similar experiences will we really understand what it's like to go on with life in these United States after spending five, six, seven years at war. They deserve better from us than assumptions, and so do our forebears.
08/26/09
I mean think about it save for thank you letters and maybe cover letters, when in this day and age do you really need to handwrite a letter (no email, no microsoft word).
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As to Don, there's the last ep of the first season where he fantasizes that his family is home waiting for him and he goes to Thanksgiving with them. Normally I find him fascinating but not particularly sympathetic, but that scene made me feel for him.
08/26/09
I don't know - I think about the shows I really love, like Homicide, or even How I Met Your Mother - and I see more nuance in those characters than I do in the Mad Men characters. But I see what you're saying.
08/26/09
That scene made me feel for him BUT (spoiler below)
All sympathy I had for him was ruined by the fact that he had been willing to abandon his children a few hours earlier. So at that point, I didn't care that he was alone in his big empty house. I guess you are supposed to feel that his family is what he really wants, deep down, but I don't see any real evidence of that.
08/26/09
They all have contradictions and feelings that are not expected. I hate to love Pete, he wants to be loved by his Dad, so he's insecure and an asshole to other people. He seems to have made a connection with Peggy yet he refused to commit to this relationship and focused on the "safe" marriage.
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I love the show.
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I have a pile of letters from my first serious boyfriend. He even told me he loved me for the first time in a letter that I received the day after he left for school. We dated between the end of high school through our first year of college. He was in TN, I was in CA. I seriously cherish those letters, even though he turned out to be a douche. I've never written letters with a boy again....
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Can you imagine getting this in a text?
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"can i put it in u 2nite?"
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Private, Sidwell Friends I believe. Doesn't matter though, my daughters have been through private and public schools and the lunches are bad universally. So I don't know how fair this ad is.
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Also, my husband and I each identify looks and personality with one of our dogs. I'm the skinny, bouncy, slightly crazy one. He's the slightly chubby (his words, not mine), laid back, loyal one. (You can see them in my avatar, red one=hubs, black one=me.)
08/11/09
Yes, those things, too.
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08/10/09
Weirdly, when I think of feeling "masculine", I think of wearing pencil skirts, walking in heels that click against tile, and using biting or clever sarcasm. When I think of feeling "feminine", it's wearing a full skirt that moves with the wind, walking with an easy sway to my hips, and listening a lot more. But I also enjoy both of those states, and don't see either of them as preferable to the other.
I think I'm framing "masculinity" and "femininity" according to the audience -- I'm more likely to be on offense verbally with a roomful of guys, and I like being dressed a particular way when playing power games with men.
08/10/09
The opposite is true when I am around me who are stereotypically masculine - I am suddenly very aware of myself as a woman.
But when I am on my own, or when I am with a close friend or my husband, I no longer think about such things. I am just me.
08/10/09
No thank you.
08/10/09
These things are fascinating to think about but I can never quite get my head around it. Because I don't buy it... any of it. I know I've felt the same way as these men at various times- self-reliant, dominating, etc. I never think of it as a masculine experience. It's part of being a competent grown up.
Is that something only men can be?