Day 4: Some of my favourite Betty Draper scenes!

1x09: Shoot

Betty shoots the birds.

Such an especially sad episode for Betty. You could tell how excited she was at the prospect of getting back into modelling and the world of work, only to suffer a crushing disappointment at the end... as the photoshoot really turned out to be All About Don. So her shooting the birds towards the end was so fucking awesome and liberating and hedonistic and HELL YEAH for Betty. Because yes, Betty is spoilt and childish and can be mean and petty, but she's so repressed and trapped and just so SAD. You basically just wanted her to run all over town shooting up random stuff with a cigarette in her mouth. And then run all the way to Madison Avenue and give Don a taste of the same medicine, lawl. (Or at least I did). I would actually say that this is probably my favourite scene of the entire first season, after The Carousel in the finale.

SEASON ONE

Betty Draper: Mommy Dearest

Of all the things that Betty gets picked on by fans the most, it's for her flaws as a parent. I've always thought that if there is one thing that society in general is most unforgiving of when it comes to women, it's being a bad mother. Now, I'm not going to go as far as to say that these criticisms are entirely inaccurate. Yes, Betty is a bad mother. But it frustrates me when fandom just goes with that without bothering to analyse or attempting to understand why she is the way she is. Which is a pity, because the show has done a damn good job of doing so, albeit sometimes using that part of her personality in order to villainise her and to make Don look good (smh, Season 4).

DEB MORGAN: Why her flaws make her awesome!

Alright, so I decided to start off my first day of Deb love with a list of the most common complaints I see and hear the most of fandom. My aim is to analyse these comments and why I think they're all so completely wrong :)