“man, i wish i was like don, he’s so cool.”

[Mad Men: this man is good at selling lies because his whole life is a lie; an attractive package for a yawning emptiness]

“hell yeah, don, cheat on your wife”

April 09, 2026 - 16:42 UTC

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The Venn diagram of people who think Don Draper is just a circle with people who think people like Gordon Gecko/Tyler Durden/William "D-Fens" Foster/Tony Montana/Jordan Belfort are a role model.
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I literally sent this fifteen minutes ago to @clhowley.bsky.social who is watching the show for the first time following the “Limit Your Exposure” ad.

And the thing is the show actually has some early positive depictions of therapy, both with Sally and with Roger!
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Except for the part when Betty's therapist calls Don to tell him how her session went.
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I'm going to follow your lead and refer to him as "Dan" from now on.
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I never finished the series but you've been tempting me to revisit it. I may have to get on that now.
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Oh good, some of them DO get help? 😮‍💨
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Mad Men says "this is a story about how a miserable guy with a shitty life uses his handsomeness and nice clothes to trick people into thinking he has a great life" and a certain type of man races to be the mark in that character's con
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It's like when he makes the ad for Hawaii with the clothes abandoned on the beach, and everyone is like, "okay, so this guy just died," and he has no idea of how they got to that very obvious conclusion.
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