July 2010
9 posts
“The experience made for a sort of rite of passage: drinking and dancing (at first reluctant), followed by a restorative affair with a ranch hand, and, most importantly, the camaraderie of similarly positioned women… many of the women who came to divorce ranches were mothers who were experiencing their first taste of freedom in years, either because they had left their children behind, or because there was always someone at the ranch who would take care of the kid while mom explored what it meant to be unhitched.”
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Slate offers a look inside the glamorous divorce ranches of Mad Men-era Nevada. (via nbclocal)
Combining this passage from Slate with predictions that we can expect an even icier Betty Draper in the upcoming season of Mad Men, it is safe to assume that Betty and Henry may not make it through her six weeks in Reno.
