January Jones (via maya-maya)

PREACH, JJ.  I always think the audience reaction to Betty exposes the incredible hypocrisy in attitudes towards women today.  People pitied her when she was sweet and inoffensive in Season 1, but as soon as she started lashing out at the incredibly ass-hatty way Don was treating her, people turned on her and seemed to largely lose sympathy with her.  It’s like, the idea of a woman as a voiceless, helpless victim is far easier to deal with than a woman who actually reacts to the things and the people that are hurting her, who refuses to keep on taking shit and actually EXPRESSES her pain…even if in Betty’s case she often goes about it the wrong way (the way she treats her kids, for example).  This is why I think she’s one of the best characters on TV at the moment; she’s an example of the millions of women who the feminist movement could never actually reach, and how even today women are expected to live up to ridiculous, impossible expectations.

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