I kind of love when the guys on Mad Men get really sexist and offensive and act like they're better in the workforce than women, because it only helps to further illuminate how they're not. Take for example, the showdown between Joan and Jane on last night's episode. Both women are well aware just how smart and socially sophisticated the other is. There's no pretending to be dumb when it's just the women interacting with each other, and both women have proven successful at getting the men in the office into doing what they want them to do, and letting the men think it was their decision. It's kind of funny that Joan — intimidating in body and mind — has finally met her match in Jane, someone who she can't really control. Funnier still that it's another woman.

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