Radar's guide to discussing Mad Men properly

You could get lung cancer just from watching that show.

Sailor = Jimmy Barrett

I love this show sooo much. I think its really interesting that you can see the power shift between men and women in the latter episodes and the men are clueless haha.
Joan Holloway! whoot!

um, bobbi barrett is not a client's wife.. she's a talent's (jimmy) wife.

Roger Sterling also slept with that prositute that he took to Lutece.

Joan is the Office Manager, not just a secretary.

January Jones might also be the stupidest woman who's ever lived. On the Season 1 DVD commentaries (the only DVD commentaries I've ever had to turn off in disgust!), she said about her line, "Vodka gimlets and lobster Neuberg need to get a divorce," "I still don't understand that! Lobster gimlets? What?"
Even her undeniable ridiculous hotness doesn't overcome that level of dumber-than-a-post-edness.

Let's recap what we know, based on the limited (and sometimes contradictory) information we have.

1926 -- Dick Whitman is born. His mother, a prostitute, dies giving birth. Dick goes to live with his father and his wife.

1936 -- Dick is 10. His father (Archibald Whitman) dies when kicked in the head by a horse. Archie's wife Abigail is pregnant at the time and marries Uncle "Mack" Johnson shortly thereafter.

1937 -- Abigail gives birth to Adam. Adam and Don (11) have the same father, Archie Whitman.

1945 -- Dick is 19, Adam is 8. (Don leaves home?)

1950 -- Dick is 24 and joins the army to serve in the Korean war. Adam is 13.

1951 -- Dick (25) assumes identity of a dead soldier. Discharged from army as Don Draper.

1952 -- Don (26) works as a used-car salesman.

1953 -- Don (27) works for Teddy the Furrier, writing advertising copy, meets, impregnates Betty (21), and marries her.

1954 -- Don starts working at Sterling Cooper. Sally is born to Don (28) and Betty (22).

1956 -- Don (30), Betty (24), and Sally (2) welcome a son Bobby.

1960 -- Adam (23) meets with Don, his half-brother, later hangs himself.

1962 -- Don (36), Betty (30), Sally (8), Bobby (6).

2008 -- Don is 82! Betty is 76! Sally is 54! Bobby is 52! (Do you think they will make it to 2008?)

(Adam was either 10 or 11 years younger than Dick/Don (depending on whether his birthday was in 1936 or 1937. I have used 1937.)

(The little information we have seems to indicate that the real Don Draper was several years older than Dick Whitman, perhaps in his 40s. He had the rank of Lieutenant, had an Engineering degree, etc.)

Sai1or = Pete Campbell

The feminist complaint is so ridiculous! If girls were held back in the 60s, Peggy would never have been promoted. If girls were overlooked, Joan would never have become the manager of the secretaries. Feminism is just using sexist misandrist lame excuses to get preferential treatment by brain washing the dumb people into believing it is about equality, when it in fact it is based on misandist hate politics. Affirmative Action is discriminatory, racist and sexist, but we live in a misandrist society that promotes hate.