I think I may be opening up pandora’s box with this question but, what do you guys think of Betty Draper? As a mother, wife, friend, anything.

1. excusememsdione answered: she’s fabulous. i plan to be her when i grow up.
2. motionpicturemuggle answered: as a mother, she’s a bitch. as a wife, she’s annoying. as a friend, she’s a damn good friend. as a woman, I can completely relate to her.
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4. freaksheet answered: I think she is perfect.~
5. kquinny answered: I personally think she’s bat-shit crazy, but the kind of villain you love to hate :)
6. delovely69 answered: controlling, impatient narcissist
7. elegantlybare answered: Victim of male privilege. She went to Bryn Mawr, was a model and was affluent. If she lived today she would’ve been cultured and single.
8. this-flight-tonight answered: I’ve seen only the first two seasons, but I don’t see her as…competent in any of her relationships. Doesn’t have the emotional strength.
9. nicholhayden answered: i always felt like she was the perfect manifestation of what society expected at the time and the contrasting flaws that come with that
10. soundhasfury answered: I think that she is confused. Shes been told all her life who to be and how to act, and now she doesn’t know who she is.
11. aprieto answered: Flawless
12. sistermagpie answered: Love watching how her anger sometimes makes her ugly and childish. I think I wrote a whole essay about how I feel about her somewhere!
13. showerfreshbubbles answered: good wife, don’t understand why everyone hates her as a mother
14. grimaugury answered: i love how people hate betty’s character because she’s a bad person but they love the men who are as just as bad if not worse than her.
15. postmodernbuckwheat answered: I can understand why people don’t like her. But she’s a wonderfully complex character and she is definitely missed when she is absent.
16. britaxoxo answered: She’s very spiteful and selfish.
17. stevenspielburger answered: she’s a great character because she’s not meant to be liked, and she is also a very dynamic character.
18. potato-of-glory answered: I love her character. I think she’s a woman who is really tries but is a slave of her issues. And she’s pissed.
19. maryflynn answered: She’s a great character but an awful mother. Not her fault though
20. lilliththelastseal answered: I personally think she’s melodramatic and childish/vindictive, but she also cares a lot about her children. Definitely a typical 60s housewif
21. situationvacant answered: i LOVE betty as a character and think she’s no worse as person than many other people on the show and still gets so much unfair hate
22. charles-wing answered: I think she looks pissed
23. sunnydriveinsarajevo answered: she’s a terrible everything on that list but a beautiful, dynamic character!!!
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