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The Mad Men Thread

Submitted by Lionelane from Google Reader

Oct 05, 2009

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If you haven't seen the latest episode, avoid the jump. I found Campbell as the rapist a lot more troubling (in a good way) than Greg. I don't know how else to say this--I thought Pete's episode was much more about how the rapist lies in the heart of all men. It was very hard to see myself in Greg, to empathize with him as the rapist, last season. That's because Pete is familiar to us, Greg isn't. We know Pete.

This is very important, because it keeps us from averting our eyes, from putting a rapist in a box, from turning him into a pariah who could never possibly live on our side of the street. Equally important is how the rape happened--not as brute force, but by bringing to bear a myriad of societal forces (race, class, citizenship) to exercise power. What I appreciate about Mad Men's depiction of rape, is the refusal to make it about hoods hiding out in dark alleys. Yeah it's that too--but it's so much more. Rape in Weiner's hands is a kind of lynching, a means of putting uppity women, who dare express their own free will, back in their place.

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