Men, mad and otherwise

Will Wilkinson, in the course of a right-on blog post talking about how our current era of tricky mixed expectations about how a gent behaves toward women is a good thing, makes an astonishing assertion.

I think part of the fascination for many white guys with the show Mad Men is that it is a window into an attractive (to them) world of white male dominance and privilege that has largely disappeared.

Seriously?

I'm six episodes into the show and all I can think is how fascinatingly awful those people are, and how happy I am that I live now and not then.