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The folks at NBC's long-running legal franchise Law & Order must have thought they'd garner praise for their episode on abortion. The show, however, was anything but balanced.
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I did find Accidentally on Purpose on CBS, the story of Billie, (Jenna Elfman) a movie critic who has a fling with the young, handsome, unstable Zach (Jon Foster). She quickly becomes pregnant.
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Even as we anticipate watching the women who work at Sterling Cooper struggle with changing gender roles, we are watching that struggle take place in a privileged world.
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"Mad Men" is all about the hard truths, and the hard truth is that being a woman forging her own path in the early 60s was very lonely indeed.
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Hold on to your hats: the 60s are coming to Sterling Cooper! Will Don Draper and his ilk go from icons of cool to losers holding back the tide of progress?
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Mad Men presents an exploration of race, class, and gender in the not-so-distant past that challenges the notion that all was well back in the day and keeps this fan coming back for more.
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True, second wave feminists didn't burn their bras--or their girdles or their garters--but "Mad Men" suggests that they probably should have.
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Astute and unflinching examination of gender politics has proved to be the secret of the rise of "Mad Men" in popular culture. RH Reality Check is hosting a salon on the program.
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Reader diary posted by Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check July 30, 2009 - 5:29pm
Do abortion jokes--even if they're in poor taste or misogynist--need to be heard?
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You'd think that something that happens to over a million women a year would merit more than one on-screen portrayal since Maude terminated her pregnancy 37 years ago.
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