I just finished every season available to watch of Mad Men and besides anxiously awaiting its return in order to see how the plot will progress, I am equally excited to continue learning about life in the 60s. The show slightly began tying in references to the Civil Rights movement, and Peggy Olsen (Elizabeth Moss) is grappling with the idea of civil rights and her role and status as a woman. This post will be short since I simply wanted to share this quote from the show that I found so completely thought provoking. Peggy is talking to a friend (who happens to be a lesbian) about why the men she dates can't deal with her work schedule.
The friend says: "It's like men are this vegetable soup. You can't put them on a plate or eat them off a counter so women are the pot. [Women] heat them up, they hold them, they contain them. But who wants to be a pot? And who the hell says we're not soup?"
Peggy disagreed with this quote, what do you think? This quote is obviously rooted in a historical context, but I think the sentiment is still relevant. Do you think today women have become the soup?
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