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By: Fab new S2 picture: It’s all about Peggy « Basket of Kisses

Fab new S2 picture: It’s all about Peggy « Basket of Kisses — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:51:16 +0000

[...] she had to buy a wardrobe of “fat suits. “But I love how much she looks like Basketeer Eme’s description of a “career girl” of the era: Pearls, hair [...]

By: Peter G

Peter G — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:31:24 +0000

Wish this blog had a spellchecker – sorry for the typos…
- Peter G

By: Peter G

Peter G — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:29:07 +0000

Here is the play that Michael was in ["The Main(e) Play" by the outstanding young Playwirght, Chad Beckhim]. During its run, he flew back to LA for the SAG Awards ceremony with the beard from the play snd Matthew liked it: http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/nyc/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003701179

- Peter G

By: Retro Girl

Retro Girl — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:21:09 +0000

I know it’s kind of pathetic, but I want Peggy’s ponytail. I want to have that perfect Peggy-Sue perfection of a ponytail l when I wear my hair like that.

I do think it’s interesting that she’s still dressing very much like a young girl. I wonder if it’s because she couldn’t afford an entirly new wardrobe yet. I know the production designers and other departments in that area of the show pay very close attention to things like that (making sure the characters could afford the clothes they are wearing). I was born after the show was set, so I have no idea how much clothing cost, and what Peggy would have been earning.

By: Eme

Eme — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:02:04 +0000

Ooh, good, yes! Peggy has a conflict around sexual agency. That’s great, Deb. Thanks!

When she was gaining weight, my first thought was that she was doing it subconsciously to sabotage her own looks bc that aspect of her feminine power disturbs her (and not bc it leads to sex.) She’s constantly playing down her looks as people are always reminding her (“show off your darling little ankles,” “are you Amish?”, etc.)

By: Deborah Lipp

Deborah Lipp — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:53:20 +0000

I would say the word your looking for is agency. Joan has agency; she is the agent of choice in her sex life. Peggy has libido, she experiences lust and arousal.

By: Eme

Eme — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:38:38 +0000

I don’t mean repression or inexperience about her sexuality, I mean conflicted. I think there’s a difference but, unfortunately, I don’t know how to articulate it very well. I am not talking about sexuality in terms of pleasure; more along the lines of feminine power. If Peggy were really sexually confident, SHE would choose the man she sleeps with, not the other way around.

For instance, someone like Joan has no problem in showing off her figure and using her feminine power and choosing who she sleeps with and when but, on the other hand, Joan doesn’t seem as passionate in bed as Peggy.

I don’t know if that’s any clearer. It would be a lot easier if there were two different words for these two terms; one would describe the way a woman owns her attractiveness and female power, the other would describe her capacity for cutting loose and being sexually passionate. (I do think these are actually different aspects of sexuality.) On another related entry, I think we were having some very good insights about the intricacies of female sexuality as portrayed on MM.

By: Roberta Lipp

Roberta Lipp — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:20:34 +0000

I have always thought that the way she handled Pete at her apartment door was a very sexually confident move. A young girl with presumably no sexual experience (in the doctor’s office she was reading a pamphlet called something to the effect of What To Expect On Your Wedding Night) would, I don’t know, wait to be kissed. Taking his hand and leading him inside was stunning, and does not speak of repression to me.

And so Peggy remains confusing to me. Complicated. So she can wear her hair any way she wants to : )

By: Deborah Lipp

Deborah Lipp — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:51:09 +0000

I think it has a lot to do with her place as a smart professional in a pre-feminist world. Being a woman means being not-a-man, which undermines her drive to succeed.

By: Eme

Eme — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:10:33 +0000

Heh. But just as I posted it, I thought of something. I thought of the ponytail as such a clear indication of girlishness that I wondered if this particular hairstyle is related to her denial of her pregnancy. See, I think that Peggy is in a bind around her sexuality. I think she has a conflict when it comes to looking attractive to men. She WANTS to be sexy but then again she doesn’t. For instance, she is clearly uncomfortable with the amount of male attention she garners as a newcomer to SC. Yet she sleeps with Pete right away bc he noticed her and trucked all the way out to Brooklyn. Like, I said, she’s conflicted about it, which explains a lot. And in, a way, it might also clue us in to her own unwillingness to grow up. She is, in her own words, a very responsible person. But then she also didn’t want to take the responsibility of actually noticing that she was pregnant, so she put it out of her mind. Anyway, so maybe this is the reason she still wears her hair in a ponytail. She doesn’t want to own up to actually growing up, although she IS very aware of social class and status (as evidenced by her date with the truck-driver.)

So, I don’t know.