Don Draper is going to have a breakdown

[MADem]

64. There you go again, with more snark and insults. Are you incapable of conversing like a human?

Or do you think the "I'm sophisticated...and you're NOT" approach is convincing?

Hint: It's not.

You're coming across as childish and defensive. If you were so confident of your "Don the Dungeon King" thesis, you wouldn't feel the need to be so dismissive of anyone who challenges your POV, and you'd have no need to be so rude.

I have no idea how old you are, but I was alive and kicking back then. Try watching the Late, Late, Late movies, from the forties, fifties, and sixties, and watch the way that male leads "handled" their women, and what was considered a "womanly" response. Males were "dominant," women were "submissive"--except when they were "feisty," but it didn't do to be that for too long, lest they be regarded as "hags" or "nags."

They didn't call it "BDSM" back then. They called it being "manly" and "womanly." And they didn't call it "rape" back then either (see Pete Campbell for your reference, there). And the most "womanly" woman survived by pretending to be agreeable, stupid, submissive or all three in that era.

What this show illustrates is not just the man's actions, but the woman's REactions--something that no one got a good and honest look at fifty years ago. That's a good deal of what makes it a work of "genius."

You're painting 21st Century views onto a mid-20th Century character.

Maybe you might want to watch some TV from the timeframe, to get a sense of how people thought and behaved.

And, FWIW, it's kind of hard to miss the "Island" theme, since it keeps popping up in titles (The Flood), locations (Hawaii) and dialogue about Gilligan's Island....but whatever. You're the DU film school sophomore, home for the holidays to tell us all what you've learned. We're just the clueless dolts, hanging on your every word lest we be derided because you know it all...