Board Thread:Television/@comment-1713281-20131004113215/@comment-1428252-20150201000656

Personally I don't think Betty Carver is based on peggy or supposed to be anything like her. Given Captain 'Spangles' propaganda role and given the inevitable rumours of a girlfriend (Peggy herself would be classified) creating someone who fits the ideals of the setting (and real life 40s for that matter) would be a cheap and easy tool. After the war (in real life) there was a big spike in conservatism and the people in power weren't subtle about forcing people to toe the line.

On that note I don't get the hate Agent Carter has picked up; while a lot of it is empty bluster (Like Thor; six months later people are still buying) what concerns me is most of it isn't about it's quality most of it is pretty blatant sexism/mysogny. Stuff like forcing their views on others; about how it wasn't really like that then (mass firing of women post WW2 is fact); it's openly feminist or just because it makes them feel bad. While I realise that the anonymous nature brings out the absolute worst in people (for a variety of pretty pathetic excuses) all to often; I don't see this hate directed at Mad men (a show that takes a warts and all aproach to the 60s) or is it because the protagonist is a white male chauvinist that at least some people wish they could get away with in real life?