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Besides being able to be sexist, you were also allowed to treat women as women, something you have to bypass a certain byzantine PC-code to be able to do today.

• Tichy 15y ago
  "you were also allowed to treat women as women" Whatever that is supposed to mean? As for the alcohol, true, I don't mind. However, I don't really miss it either - it wouldn't be sufficient to make me want to live in a Mad Men world. And there does not seem to be happening much else besides drinking and philandering.
  • batista 15y ago
    Whatever that is supposed to mean? Among other things, the recognition that there exist two (or more) different sexes that occasionally want to flirt with each other, and that, horror of horrors, this also happens with co-workers. But we live in a age where they expel a 6-year old boy for kissing with a same-age girl in kindergarten.
    • hythloday 15y ago
      And in the 1950s, you'd have been fired (at best) for flirting with your same-sex colleague.
• rmc 15y ago
  Besides being able to be sexist, you were also allowed to treat women as women, something you have to bypass a certain byzantine PC-code to be able to do today. Ah yes, the curse of the modern straight male. It's like a child who had all the toys and now is told they have to share. Men's Rights groups tend to think that things are crazy now, you can't treat a woman like a woman! You have to treat them as an equal! Madness!
  • batista 15y ago
    Yeah, as if to "treat a woman like a woman" must imply treating her like an inferior creature. Whatever. FWIW, it just means to not treat here like some sexless thing that you have to approach with the utmost caution because the PC police might find anything and everything offensive. (I understand that some people automatically even the second version to: "so you want to treat women like a sexist pig, slapping their asses and making vulgar comments"). It's getting all the more difficult to discuss this kind of things with americans.