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Les degrés du Rite Écossais Ancien et Accepté : Une Progression Ésotérique.

Message me with anything regarding the show. 

I mean literally, anything. Theories, ships, episodes, favorite moments, least favorite moments, the actors/actresses...whatever you want.

And yes, I know that the show ended in 2015, but I don’t care. I started watching it last year, in September 2017, and finished the entire series by November 2017. Currently, I’m re-watching all of the seasons, some in order, some not. I listen to the audio commentary on select episodes, especially if it’s by the actors that were in the episode. 

I work in advertising (for those following along this week, I also said I work in tech, which is true. I do advertising for tech companies...), so I have always associated with Peggy Olsen. In fact, I want to channel her bad-assery so much that she’s my work computer background. 

Back in 2015 when Mad Men was still on the air, pop culture site Flavorwire wrote two fantastic pieces on the show’s feminism (or subversion of). 

Peggy Olson Is the Most Accurate Depiction of Women in the Workplace TV Has Ever Seen

Since the days that Mad Men depicts, blatant workplace sexism may have retreated, but it’s in no way been eradicated. In fact, a woman can go through a long career feeling like she’s been squeezed into being a Megan, then a Peggy, then a Joan, even taking a detour into being a Betty when she has kids. Yet Peggy Olson is perhaps the most predictable focus of identification for the female fans of the show, because her journey is so painful, and feels so real. 

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Through Peggy we got to witness what many of us have been through at one point or another: being made to feel unattractive and asexual and then being hit on; being ignored, then screamed at. She’s an intruder in the world of the ad men not simply because she’s a woman, but because she’s a woman who wants to get ahead by proving herself like a man — yet this, without having the fact of her womanhood erased. 

Extending beyond Peggy to encompass all the show’s leading ladies:

Feminist Writers on the ‘Mad Men’ Moments That Made Them Cheer and Broke Their Hearts

There are the highs... literally

To the lows