media critique

Don Draper: The Most Influential Fake Man of 2009

TV post by Kelsey Wallace on October 7, 2009 - 1:26pm; tagged askmen.com, Don Draper, influence, Mad Men, masculinity, media critique, sexism.

Yesterday, my bf emailed me an article from the consistently obnoxious and terrible men's site askmen.com. Apparently, the hard-hitting journalists working over there were interested in determining the Most Influential Man of 2009, and the winner (chosen through a reader poll) was Mad Men's fictional philanderer Don Draper. You know, because television characters should really be the most influential people in our lives.

At any rate, my beau found the news of Draper winning this award even more ridiculous and upsetting than I did, so I asked him to write a brief response to the article from The Male Perspective. Read it after the jump!

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Of Kegels, Kotex, and Kate Moss

A Look at February's Women's Glossies

Issue #2

Allure

Irony of the month: While the Editor’s Letter says, “Shut up and eat,” and bemoans the fact that women are always “self-surveilling” their caloric intake, the mag gives information about: “Aromatrim” products (you smell them and they make you eat less); a new diet pill; “liposhaving” (you can guess what that is).

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