As I start getting into Mad Men 3 seasons too late, I'm starting to appreciate how far women have come. And how far women have come in NOT tolerating men.
What I mean is that throughout the first season of Mad Men, women were used in puns, as buds of jokes, and basically told that they should just be happy to amount to a secretarial position at a high end ad agency.
Years later, most of the women I know have attended college, applied that received knowledge towards beginning a career in the working world, and have tried their hardest to make it to the top.
The "top" has changed so drastically in the last 45 years. Rachel Menken, keeping on the Mad Men topic, is nearly the owner of her father's retail store, a version of Bendel's/Bloomingdales (I'd assume) however, she doesn't have a family of her own, only keeps Draper as a love interest (in season 1,) and lives to work. Oh yea, and she got her job because of her last name.
Now, as everyone knows, women are able to become CEOs, CFOs, owners, and idea-makers, AND wives/moms. If a man jokes about a woman, a woman can go toe-to-toe with him with a funnier joke.
Not only are women still smart, brilliant, and beautiful, but now, they can wear their pride on their Chanel suits, while carrying their Macbook in their Hermes bags and pushing Bugaboo strollers.
Thanks, Mom. xoxox
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