Yes, examining the ways that gender expectations about relationships shape women's lives and choices clearly has nothing to do with either this episode in particular or the series in general. I wonder where anyone could have gotten the idea that Mad Men can be productively interpreted in such a way, or taken as a…

Yeah, and I was sure Don was going to run over something or someone while lighting his cigarette in the car. The scene at the Howard Johnson parking lot seems to have been inspired in part by Spoorloos (this has likely been mentioned somewhere in the 1400 comments I did not get around to reading), which made it all…

Who's "rooting for abortions"!? The point is that mainstream media depictions of abortion tend to imply that it's something a "normal woman" would never even consider and that it's not really an option, while the reality is that about one in three women has had one. Therefore, the standard depiction rings false with a…