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The Mad Men of Madison Avenue Get Real
Like many parents in 1970, the gulf between Mad Men’s rebellious Sally Draper and her uptight and out of touch parents has grown as wide as the Grand Canyon, that great natural chasm that Sally might...
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Art Exhibit Guild Hall, East Hampton, N.Y.
Mutually Assured Consumption and Destruction – Collage by Sally Edelstein I am pleased that my collage Mutually Assured Consumption and Destruction will be on exhibit at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New...
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Male Turf
The sexist suburban landscape. With names like Dandy Boy, The Lawn Boy and Lazy Boy, lawn mowing was clearly male turf. Vintage Illustrations (L) Saturday Evening Post Cover 1955 illustration: Dick...
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How to Spot a Feminist
Hunting Down a Misogynist Clutching their dusty, out of print copy of “The Misogynist Field Guide to North American Feminists,” many took to twitter at the urging of a conservative radio host, using...
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A Sweet Mothers Day
My sweet Grandmother had a sweet tooth. Whether Bartons, Barricini, or Lofts, chocolate was the common currency of celebration. But Mothers Day meant only one thing- a Whitman’s Sampler. Through the...
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Bidding Betty Goodbye- The Happy Homemaker R.I.P.
Bye Bye Birdie – Mad Men’s Betty Draper Like another Sally Beth, I too had to eventually bid my own Betty goodbye. Though thankfully my own mother would live decades longer than Mad Men’s poor Betty...
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I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke
The debate about Mad Men’s ending may continue for years, but no one can debate the fact that Coca Cola has succeeded in getting the world to buy a Coke. With the final image of Don Draper meditating...
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Boy Scout Leaders Morally Straight and… Gay
Glancing through a Boy Scout handbook, you notice how filled it is with skills you must learn and rules you must follow. before 2013, the rules for joining the Boy Scouts hadn’t changed much from...
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Memorial Day BBQ
The Smell of Democracy in the Air Making their season debut, white shoes and Weber grills come out of hibernation as Memorial Day kicks off the beginning of summer. What better way to remember those...
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Metrecal For Lunch Bunch
This once enviably svelte housewife now found herself among the masses of women who realized they needed to whittle their waists. For decades, Memorial Day has long been a solemn occasion. Besides...
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A Test of Gender
The school term was ending and community college sophomore Ginger Hawkins had taken all the tests and quizzes a gal could stand. Except one…maybe the most important test she would take that year....
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Marriage and Career- You Can Have It All
No need to draw the line between a career or marriage. Contrary to yesterday’s post with its kooky quiz asking girls to choose “What Are You Best Fitted For Love or a Career?” one mid-century miss...
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All in the Bush Family Values
Did Dan Quayle’s infamous 1992 attack on unwed mother Murphy Brown – ominously warning it would lead to the destruction of family values – inspire Jeb Bush’s 1995 publication Of Profiles in Character...
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Teaching Racism
c A Texas elementary teacher gives new meaning to Throwback Thursday. Now that Karen Fitzgibbons has been fired, I’m sure the “I’m-not-a-racist” Texas 4th grade teacher who proposed segregation on a...
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Black Like Me
Exposed of lying about her ethnicity, Rachel Dolezan has gone through efforts to change her natural physical appearance – her skin darker, hair kinkier than the pale blond of her teenage years. Oops!...
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The Circus Has Come to Town
American Showmen P.T. Barnum and Donald Trump The circus is officially in town! After the never-ending clown car of Republican Presidential candidates, the great Carnival Barker has tossed his hat...
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A Stain on America….Again
Denise McNair, 11; Carole Robertson, 14; Addie Mae Collins, 14; and Cynthia Wesley, 14; from left, are shown in these 1963 photos. A white supremacist Thomas Blanton Jr., 62, was convicted of murder...
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Not That Kind of a Girl
It’s time to end the shame of being attracted to partners who fall outside the range of who our society tells us we should be attracted to. In a recent interview (L) Miley Cyrus discussed her sexual...
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Confederate Flag’s Stained Heritage of Hate
To those who lived under Jim Crow laws there was no doubting the message or symbolism of the flag. For those who still insist that the Confederate flag is a mere symbol of southern heritage and not one...
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Marriage Equality For All ….Scotus Says I DO
The Supreme Court Says I Do to Same Sex Marriage As the The Supremes once said , “You Can’t Hurry Love”. Well it took decades to get another group of Supremes to the altar, but they finally said “I Do”...
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