Don we (k)now...

Last night’s episode of Mad Men really put me in all kinds of emotional directions. I don't typically go on and on about television shows, because, don't you just hate those people? But Mad men, MAD MEN...maybe it should be called Mad fans too...

Oh, Don Draper, and your wiley sexual ways. I want and hate you so so bad. Although lately I just want to...

Argh, damn you Don, and Duck, F** you...Chauncey so didn't deserve that!!!

Back to the episode--it was all about the two sides to women that men see and the two sides to Don that WE see.

All the while Sterling Cooper works on putting together a new ad campaign for Playtex,--an ad campaign entered around how every woman has a Jackie (Kennedy) side and a Marilyn (Monroe) side...really complicated Ad thinking of them days, huh? ;)

While they're pointing out the two kinds of ladies they have in the office, the boys peg Peggy for a Gertrude Stein. Don is in waaaaay too deep with Bobbie Barrett, but not immune to viewing women through these two lenses as well.

Don is all to happy to have Bobbie as his whore on the side, but his wife Betty buys a chic new bikini to wear at the pool, he's quick to demean her as “desperate”. (See those are the things that really bug me Don, you're so much better than that--but you're not!) Totally turning off both sides of the GF if you don't mind my saying...

Peggy, meanwhile, is trying to make headway as a woman in a man’s world. Sometimes I wonder if the show isn't going to somehow turn into her entire vehicle, but I digress...

When the men at Sterling Cooper continue to do business out on the town without her, Peggy realizes she needs to take Bobbie’s prior advice—“You can’t be a man. Be a woman. It’s a powerful business, when done right”—and Joan’s latest pearl of wisdom—“Stop dressing like a little girl”—and assert herself.

Apparently asserting yourself means going to a titty bar with the Playtex execs, in your tightest fitting cocktail dress and draping yourself over said chief executive like a cheap throw. Sigh. Peggy, behind painted eyes, falls under Pete’s judgmental eye ('Case you don't know: Pete, is also a cheater, and had just cheated on his wife AGAIN, with a model). It’s unclear whether this route will have much long-term success for Peggy, but we'll see...and I think I want to buy that dress now...

As for Don? Bobbie has always drawn out the uglier side of him, but it seems Don finally is seeing his own reflection (mirrors were a big theme in this episode) and not liking it very much.

When Bobbie dares to tell Don that his reputation as a himbo is well-known, he leaves her tied to a bedpost.

I’m not sure if this is the last we’ll see of Bobbie, and I certainly don’t think it’s the last we’ll see if Don’s not-so-endearing side, but I hope for little Sally’s sake—who starred at her father adoringly at the beginning of the episode—that he cultivates the side that she sees with a little more dedication.

[Note: Chauncey is Duck’s dog. When the dog made Duck think twice about falling off the wagon—he’s an alcoholic or whatever they called people who drank too much in those days—Duck lets him go. WTF.]