Batsh*t New York Post columnist Linda Stasi — who once sued the city of New York for $2 million after she tripped over a police barricade — is very troubled with the way that Matthew Weiner has written his “Mad Men” character Sally Draper (Kiernan Shipka). In fact, she’s so outraged, she believes that someone should call Child Protective Services on Weiner.
Maybe the parents of the 12-year-old actress who plays Sally, Kiernan Shipka, are too caught up in the glamour of the show to stop the harm it has caused their child — harm that is being played out before the country.
Sorry, but what Weiner has done over the last two seasons to the character of this child smacks not just of Hollywood perversity, but of child exploitation disguised as art.
Hey, lady. Back up a minute here. She’s not taking off her clothes. She’s not engaging in sexual activity, and she’s not blowing up anyone (unlike, say, Chloe Moretz in Kick Ass). Stasi takes particular issue with a scene in this last week’s episode in which Sally Draper’s period blood was revealed.
I can’t help but wonder whether Weiner ever considers if scenes like that excite child sexual predators. Does he care? Surely this must panic her parents — no?
What? What kind of sexual predator gets off on the sight of period blood? I mean, I’m sure those people exist, but I think that complaint says more about Stasi than Weiner. Who would watch that scene and think, “You know, I bet there’s a lot of sick, perverted men at home getting off on this. I should write a column about it.”
I can’t imagine that Shipka’s parents aren’t concerned with doing everything they can to protect their little girl from creepy fans. But when she performs in scenes like these, they expose her to a world full of them.
Yes! Of course! Because that’s exactly what sickos do on Sunday nights. They tune in to “Mad Men” in the hopes that the 12-year-old girl might walk in on a guy getting a hummer and then they formulate plans for getting their Rape Vans closer to the girl who got menstrual blood on her underwear.
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Step One: Write an article declaring faux outrage at how a child actor’s character is treated on a popular TV show. Call for absurd actions be taken.
Step Two: Rake in the page views.
Step Three: Profit (or, elevate name recognition as an author. Whatever works)
Linda (really?) must masturbate to her ABC Afterschool Specials DVD collection.
Relevant that this lady’s name is Stasi, methinks. Her family motto: Schild und Schwert der Partei.
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Sure, your Stasi makes it but mine disappears.
Mine was approved by zee Volkskammer.
But high Marx for trying.
Is “Linda Stasi” the nom de plume of Nancy Grace?
“There is a young, white girl at risk people!”
+1 to you both.
I’d like to see what she thinks of Game of Thrones, then again maybe not.
I don’t know, they make Kiernan spend a lot of time with creepy-as-fuck Glen Bishop, so Stasi could have a point.
You REALLY need to take this arguement to “Toddlers & Tiaras,” Stasi.
I have nothing to add to this except that I’d put more money on sexual deviants hanging out at TLC rather than AMC.
Oh my god, somebody’s not showing childhood as all rainbows and sunshine! ALERT THE AUTHORTIES.
“When she gets stomach pains she runs to the bathroom, where she pulls up her dress, pulls down her underpants, squats on the toilet and there, in close-up yet, they show her little-girl, white cotton underpants soiled with her first menstrual blood.
Excuse me? That is a violation of a child’s private moment that no man, let alone an entire nation, should see.”
I don’t think she understands that this is a television show, and these events are not really taking place. She seems to believe that Matt Weiner is ACTUALLY filming her getting her period for the first time and showing it to the nation.
Yes, this. This right here.
Writer from the New York Post writes something outrageous and idiotic to generate media buzz? You don’t say! Seriously though, fuck that newspaper.
I seriously doubt the genuineness of the article as well. It’s all about sensationalism.
Stupidity and attention whoring from the New York Post? Well, I never!
Which essentially amounts to doing the same thing of which she’s accusing Weiner. And it she could so easily have written about Toddlers and Tiaras instead, and we’d all agree with her. I guess that’d be too easy.
Um, you do understand that Toddlers & Tiaras is pointing a camera at real kids and parents (albeit setup in preordained scenarios) and that Mad Men is a scripted show portrayed by actors right?
… Yyyyyeah? What difference does that make?
“I think that complaint says more about Stasi than Weiner.”
BINGO.
June 06, 2012…. the date that the world REALLY ran out of things to be mad about.
We were supposed to run out in December but the internet sped up the rate to beyond the Mayan’s best imaginings.
Wow, two Mayan references in one day. Note to self: Work in the Incas.
The Inca had so many sacred sites that there was, as I recall, a whole subclass of the priesthood (or whatever) dedicated to keeping track of them all. And they failed, so no one knows what all there is. I’m sure that this can be tied into all sorts of TV shows with multiple plot threads and artifacts.
”Because that’s exactly what sickos do on Sunday nights. They tune in to “Mad Men” in the hopes that the 12-year-old girl might walk in on a guy getting a hummer”
Of course not: we pirate the show on bittorrent…
I cannot beleive we’ve gotten this far into the comments without Mrs. Lovejoy’s “Won’t Someone Think Of The Children” gif.
Uhhhh…Wouldn’t pedos be turned off by a girl getting her period for the first time? I’m pretty sure that makes her to old for them. It is, after all, the onset of puberty and signals the approach of adulthood which they are super not into.