“ But our inability to identify misogyny, even on a show that presents it so melodramatically, points to the truth behind sexism, and oppression at large. To people who actually lived through the 1960s, the sexism of their culture didn’t seem dramatic; the men who objectified and infantilized women probably bore no specific malice, and the vast majority of the women who found their lives constrained by those men didn’t imagine that things could be different. Their oppression was invisible, because it was normal. In other words, they were like us. Sexism is still around, and in the vast majority of instances it doesn’t present itself as some portentous, shocking occurrence. It’s just the fabric of daily life, a little ugliness that we take for granted.
Mad Men’s Very Modern Sexism Problem (via gauntlet)
(Source: The Atlantic, via lfar)
