And for a little non-election reading, an interesting post on why the character Don Draper on “Mad Men” is attractive to women who should have more self-respect than to find such a cheating SOB sexy. (Via.) It all started with this article that used self-described feminists swooning over Draper to argue that it’s further evidence that feminism is a farce, because women’s own masochism is the source of their problems. Nice Guys® give a “fuck yeah” and demand the pussy that is their due because they don’t think they’d cheat on January Jones with Maggie Siff. At Jezebel, they point out that the women interviewed are career women who have house husbands (which means they’re such a teeny tiny minority that you can’t extrapolate anything from their behavior), and so perhaps their attraction has something to do—-gasp!—-with the fact that women are attracted to men they can empathize with.
This theory of attraction, that people find stuff in common and bond over it, seems to be growing in popularity even as conservatives insist that men and women hail from different planets and simply can’t have anything real in common. Even sex isn’t something you can really have in common, because you know, men want sex and women want love and relationships happen after a tense exchange of these commodities.