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‘Mad Men’: P.C.-Era Porn

I swore I wouldn’t do it, but I’m going to watch the Sunday night premiere of the new “Mad Men” season, to see if it bores me. Steve Sailer has some interesting insights. Excerpt: The one thing I would add about Mad Men is that it’s becoming more apparent, year by year, that 21st Century women of the […]

I swore I wouldn’t do it, but I’m going to watch the Sunday night premiere of the new “Mad Men” season, to see if it bores me. Steve Sailer has some interesting insights. Excerpt:

The one thing I would add about Mad Men is that it’s becoming more apparent, year by year, that 21st Century women of the educated castes who watch Mad Men find themselves increasingly sexually bored by all the pathetic, politically correct weenies of their own class. That’s Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner’s big conceptual breakthrough: that women these days are aroused by men masterful enough to violate today’s thought crime taboos, if the ladies can simultaneously maintain plausible deniability that they are actually shocked, shocked by all the old “racism … cigarettes, sexism, anti-Semitism, alcoholism, homophobia.” Mad Men is not actually a satirical put-down of the past; instead, it’s designed to be a titillating turn-on for the present.

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