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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bringing personality type into the mix, she is supposed to be an ISTJ. She's trying to make logical choices.  she had love affairs along the way but i think she knew better than to try to make that into something serious. It was suppose to make sense that she held out and married a doctor. She didn't bank on him being abusive and nuts. Then from that position she did what she could to make something for herself. [/quote]

I’m surprised Joan didn’t figure out that the doctor was a loser…she is good at reading people generally. But then again she does make questionable romantic decisions: Roger and having his baby! [/quote]

Trudy also seems savvy and clever but is married to the turd that is Pete.  It does seem to imply the 60s ideal of domesticity was a false bill of goods.  Most of the married women end up miserable [/quote]

Indeed! It’s painful to see these beautiful and smart women married to lackluster men and trapped into the limited roles of wife and home maker.  There isn’t one positive romantic relationship portrayed on the show. Well I suppose Henry is a good husband to Betty. [/quote]

Pete, Roger, and late bloomer Don were multi-millionaire ad executives. Their “dumb” wives were pampered high status SAHMs. That is the dream life outcome of every woman for millennia… up until women started having their brains fried by subversive feminism within the last 50 years.[/quote]

I feel like you didn't watch the show. Pete, Roger, and Don all cheat on their wives extensively. Pete impregnates a secretary while he's engaged to Trudy, and later rapes a nanny in their apartment building. Don not only has a series of affairs, including with his kids' teacher, but also engages in a wide variety of self-destructive behavior including going on weird benders in California while covering up the fact that he stole his identity from a dead man he got killed in Korea. Roger spends years cheating on Mona, and is also fully in love with Joan, before finally marrying Jane, who is the same age as his daughter.

You don't even have to be a feminist to think these men treated their wives badly. You just have to be a person. Come on.[/quote]

Oh I forgot about the time Don left his son's birthday party to go get drunk and then comes home with a dog. OMG can you imagine being married to him?

There was also the time he had an affair with the agent of a comedian who was essential to one of his accounts, and then he and the agent get into a car accident while Don was driving drunk. Don winds up paying Peggy to keep the agent at her apartment for a week until her injuries heal, so the comedian doesn't find out and blow up the account (he finds out and blows up the account anyway, lol).

Yeah, real dream guys. What a catch![/quote]

Don left Sally's party, not Bobby's.[/quote]

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