I'm a few seasons in on this really good series but it portrays a very different view of 1960's era lifestyle than what I thought . Sure it is a fictional show and there are lots of inner office politics going on but wouldn't there be some elements of realism ? I always thought that these were more innocent times but the show doesn't portray that at all . I understand 60's had sexual revolution but i thought those were kids and hippies during the later end of that era . The cast in MM are generally young and middle age career people not hippies . But they seem to have morals no different than modern day young millenials .
Here are some points that were vastly different than i thought .
Sluttiness . Everyone is getting down with anyone at any opportunity .
Drunkeness . They are getting plastered at work every single day . Even their kids are mixing drinks for their parents .
Lying . Don Draper is the biggest bastard ever but he's also the classiest guy on the show . His communication with his wife involves a constant stream of lies .
Domestic violence . I just watched the episode where Don's wife asks him to use more discipline on their kids and she shoves him and he shoves her back hard and he's not one bit sorry .
Casual sex . Peggy the nerdy catholic girl got pregnant from a one night stand and dumps the baby with her mother and carries on casually doing more one night sex .
Asking mommy and daddy for money . We just get so much heat that millenials are the generation to ask for more hand outs from bank of mom and dad , leave the nest later , boomer rang back to nest because we're broke and want to leech from our parents because we are all in debt and finanically irresponsible . But Pete and his wife were asking their rich parents to pay for their apartment .
It just doesn't seem like a wholesome time at all . I just assumed from things ive read about even the more recent past that suggest women used to be a lot more chaste and the times were more moral and simple . But is this all imagined and inaccurate stereotyping ? Or is the show not portraying a very accurate social scene of typical adults of that time ?
Here are some points that were vastly different than i thought .
Sluttiness . Everyone is getting down with anyone at any opportunity .
Drunkeness . They are getting plastered at work every single day . Even their kids are mixing drinks for their parents .
Lying . Don Draper is the biggest bastard ever but he's also the classiest guy on the show . His communication with his wife involves a constant stream of lies .
Domestic violence . I just watched the episode where Don's wife asks him to use more discipline on their kids and she shoves him and he shoves her back hard and he's not one bit sorry .
Casual sex . Peggy the nerdy catholic girl got pregnant from a one night stand and dumps the baby with her mother and carries on casually doing more one night sex .
Asking mommy and daddy for money . We just get so much heat that millenials are the generation to ask for more hand outs from bank of mom and dad , leave the nest later , boomer rang back to nest because we're broke and want to leech from our parents because we are all in debt and finanically irresponsible . But Pete and his wife were asking their rich parents to pay for their apartment .
It just doesn't seem like a wholesome time at all . I just assumed from things ive read about even the more recent past that suggest women used to be a lot more chaste and the times were more moral and simple . But is this all imagined and inaccurate stereotyping ? Or is the show not portraying a very accurate social scene of typical adults of that time ?
