Well, this one, for one.

I think Virginia's obviously qualified to do the job she's doing. She's the best thing that ever happened to Masters's study and that's what she's respected as. That people mistakenly give her the respect of a doctor is not because she's pretty, it's because people who come into the study don't understand that just…

She's into him, yes. No career advancement implied.

They're joking, but the point of the joke isn't that antisemitism is a terrible, absurd thing. They barely have any Jewish employees at that moment so he can hardly be ironic about it. "Nobody wants too many Jews in their workplace" is a more logical basis for the joke than a 13 year old movie Don expects everyone to…

That she was on the pill starting the same day as the first time they slept together, so it had time to take effect by the couch encounter?

Sarcastic how?

Neither of those things were blunders. They were both conscious choices on Weiner's part. He just decided to use the Lucky Strikes ad and pretend it didn't exist until then, and with the typewriters they tried to get earlier ones and it was impossible so they just accepted they'd be wrong.

This is why so many people insist that in 1969 Sally must be at Woodstock and Sal must be Stonewall, even though there's nothing about either of those characters that has them heading that way (especially Sal).

So many child actors are the best actors ever and then somehow aren't great as adults (and if they are great as adults they're much better than they were as kids). I actually get annoyed by the focus on the brilliance of KS in this cast of greats. I have no complaints about her, but I feel like it's enough that she's…

If it's the line I'm thinking of…who's he being facetious against? Isn't he just making an anti-Semitic crack? People do that throughout the series.

I find almost all the characters interesting and engaging. As to how or why…I watch the show and I just feel that way? Isn't this like asking why somebody likes a certain flavor ice cream?

Also F&G was dealing with kids in high school in a small town where little was going on. I've heard people criticize Mad Men as having the characters talk too much about current events, but of course people would talk about important current events when they were important. It would be like setting something on…

That's true—but I think that's slightly different than the implication that she "needs a man" like she's not complete without one. She needed to feel desired and deserved it after years of probably feeling otherwise. So yeah, I agree, but I think it's empowering for her rather than betraying the rest of the episode.…

Personally, it can be more insulting to Masters—after all, Virginia's the clever one in this situation while he's the one being duped by her, so she definitely comes across as smarter. And what she's implying is definitely insulting to both Masters and Virginia. But the sexist narrative in general is more harmful to…

To be fair, she didn't need "a man" she needed a man who knew what he was doing. Could have been another woman—or herself if she knew what she liked. That's part of what the study is showing about women, that they have a lot more potential for different sexual responses than was assumed.

Right, but I'm saying that the narrative where the girl's slutting it up is more misogynist than misandrist. I don't think that Dr. DePaul is automatically misogynist in all areas of her life—she's trying to break into a man's profession so she's a very feminist character and she would naturally resent a woman being…

I kept expecting Virginia to come running after her and offer to give her some private tutoring. If Masters can give the Christian couple a quick lecture, why not Virginia to Margaret?

That just seems unlikely to me that the idea is that Ethan had only ever had sex with the expectation of marriage or relationship in the past—and when I say expectation I mean that Ethan himself was genuinely prepared to have a serious relationship with the woman or else he wouldn't touch her. If the idea of casual…

If he'd had sex with anyone, then he was familiar with the concept of casual sex because he wasn't married to any of them.

I can't honestly remember what they said about him before Virginia, but he didn't seem to be a virgin. He seemed more amazed at her "we'll just be friends…but here's a blowjob" attitude than giddy over a rare sexual encounter. (That also came up later when a girl he brought home didn't want to have oral sex but was…