Why does Don like Peggy?
We’ve talked a lot about him seeing himself in her. A lot of smart Basketcases in comments have described that eloquently. But he started out with that “blinded by the earnestness” remark. So how come he changed?
I think it’s in part that he did make that remark. That he was wrong. Don loves, loves, being surprised by a woman, being shown up by her. That initial thrill with Rachel came when he was wrong and had to admit it. She showed him up. Bobbie Barrett out-negotiated him. And when Midge couldn’t keep up with him, he lost interest in her. With Peggy it’s not sexual. SO not sexual. But he has that delight in being proven wrong by her, and yes, he sees himself, the outsider, the person remaking himself, the wrong side of the tracks.
But there has to be more.
Don on the train, first becoming Don: He was broken, he was frozen. Like Peggy was frozen by the pregnancy and the baby. Don tells her it never happened, but he tells her more, he tells her to give “them” what they want to hear. “Them.” Don knows them, somehow, and that speaks to a post-train story that may be more similar to Peggy’s than we’d imagined. Did he break? Did he break and then move forward, and tell them what they wanted to hear?
“You’ll be shocked by how much it never happened.”
August 27th, 2008 at 9:21 am
I find myself thinking he wants an ally. Someone who is like him and he sees someone he can mentor in Peggy. Poor Don is lonely no one who really knows him so he gravitates towards outsiders and let’s face it in the US at that time women were outsiders especially strong women. In Peggy he probably sees the chance to see the creation and transformation of her into that strong woman. The look on his face when she said Don was priceless surprise and joy almost at her finally coming into her own.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:33 am
It was a little like the look on his face when she first asked for a raise. I think it delighted him that he underestimated her.
But i do seriously suspect that Don, like Peggy, may have once been institutionalized, and that’s how he knew how to advise her.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:39 am
We know Don was in the hospital in Korea.
He may have been in there for more than just physical injuries.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Or just basic recovery from being in a traumatic war accident. I’m sure to get out of the army even with the new identity required learning to just tell them what they wanted to hear. Or he could have even discovered by just not saying much and nodding at appropriate times you know,
Army guy – “Don Draper?”
Dick/Don – (hmmm sure why not?) nods
August 27th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Deb, this is really interesting. It’s funny, because I definitely got the idea that he was trying to protect her from shock therapy, but never I never traced it back to his own story.
He may have known someone else, as well. OHMYGOD maybe there was a former wife!
August 27th, 2008 at 10:10 am
He had just gone out on a limb to promote a woman, and the first thing she does is go AWOL. Some of his interest in Peggy is self-serving; he needs to save face.
But I like your theory about his own past.
August 27th, 2008 at 11:04 am
The way he said, “You need to get out of here” told us that he knows the trauma of being confined to a mental institution. I also think Don, by making Peggy a copy writer, assumed the role of mentor to her. In fact, she is the first mentee that we know of on the show, although it’s possible Sal is another.
“I gave you a promotion, and you disppeared” — meaning, he put his confidence in her, only to disappear on him. Abandonment is a very strong emotion, whether in life, marriage or the business world. His mother abandoned him by dying. Rachel abandoned him by going away. Betty abandoned him at Thanksgiving. He can’t let Peggy do the same.
Also, Don knows that women are moving beyond the steno pool and into the advertising world, as well as being a consumer force. “What do women want?” he asks. He needs Peggy to tell him — and he may need Peggy as a partner down the road.
August 27th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Don knows them, somehow, and that speaks to a post-train story that may be more similar to Peggy’s than we’d imagined.
That’s interesting. I know that a number of people in the show have been pushing the idea that we don’t yet know what Draper’s life was like in between the train from “Nixon v. Kennedy” and “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”, and they haven’t yet dealt with that time directly this season.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
“But i do seriously suspect that Don, like Peggy, may have once been institutionalized, and that’s how he knew how to advise her.”
You just blew my mind.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
I have to say I find myself really hoping Don wasn’t institutionalized. I think that might just veer toward the “way too soap operay” spectrum. I think I prefer to just think he needed to save face, knew she had potential and saw that he could help her.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
In fact, she is the first mentee that we know of on the show, although it’s possible Sal is another.
I think Paul was somewhat of one. Writer to writer. I always go back to an early S1 episode, maybe 5G, where Paul asks Don ‘are we still on for lunch’. I think Paul is very bitter these days about not being properly mentored. Or, favored.
“I gave you a promotion, and you disppeared” — meaning, he put his confidence in her, only to disappear on him. Abandonment is a very strong emotion, whether in life, marriage or the business world.
If that’s true, if that’s a drive, then it’s one more reason that I love Don. Because an angry man with abandonment issues would be likely to respond with anger. Instead, Don responded with curiosity and kindness. In this encapsulated instance, he is treating Peggy as family, but like, the good version of treating someone as family.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
I think you are right about Paul, Roberta. Also, Don’s moments of kindness come most often when he is in control — he was kind to Bobby when Bobby was expecting to get a spanking; he was kind to Peggy when he was acting as her mentor; he was kind to Betty when she crashed her car into the lawn ornament.
These writers know what they are doing…
August 27th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Don was in an institution – the Army. Both he and Peggy are dealing with authortarian institutions which required obedience to a code of conduct. So, he doesn’t have to have been in a mental hospital to know what it’s like to deal with an institution that has taken away your ability to act freely unless you behave in a certain way.
He’s advising her that fighting “the man” doesn’t work, but giving in so that you can get out and move on does. After all, it did for him.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Hrmm, i think the relationship between Betty and Don is almost sibling-like. In the sense that Don’s kinda her “big brother”. Do you think its possible that he took her under his wing after his own little brother took his own life? Maybe he sees the same vulnerability in Adam as with Peggy. Both young, simple, happy and look up to him? I think he really regrets the result of Adam’s actions and is maybe trying to make up for it in a way. And to someone deserving, which is why he chose her over any of the Pete’s in the office.
Also, i think its more than possible that Don was institutionalized after the war. I mean, its not unusual, after war-like trauma, especially the fact that his partner died etc. I think he may have assumed “Don Draper”, then he couldn’t actually remember anything about himself or his life…..because he’s NOT Don Draper….but they (medics) might have mistaken that for some kind of mental issue from trauma. He probably had to go through a lot to be Don Draper! as well all can agree…..sorry if that sounds confusing!
August 27th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
ps. I meant big brother in the more literal sense, not “big brother” as in “is watching you” haha.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Has it ever been established whether or not Don was treated for “combat trauma” or whatever the name was back in the day? I’ve always wondered if Don’s brooding looks are in part caused by the “thousand yard stare” of having seen too much (the REAL Don Draper’s face being blown off!!) in Korea….Hmmm….
August 27th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
One of the overriding mysteries of the show (other than how Sal & Kitty met) is how exactly Dick Whitman became Don Draper. We saw how he took another man’s identification and immediately pass himself off. We saw the moment he left Dick Whitman behind by staying on the train.
But we don’t know how he transformed himself, created the identity and persona he would come to occupy. I hope that over the course of the series we get to witness not just the gaps between seasons, but the sequence of events that it took for Don to achieve his position at S-C, his courting of Betty, and so forth. Of course that may take us into the early 1980’s!
August 27th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I wouldn’t doubt that some of his time in the army hospital was for psychiatric evaluation, as well as physical trauma. It might explain why he has such animosity toward it.
August 27th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
B. Cooper, blowing your mind is a HUGE compliment to me.
Brenda, I love your insight.
Do you think its possible that he took her under his wing after his own little brother took his own life?
JR, this blew MY mind.
August 27th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Lots of good thinking on this thread.
The Don/Peggy relationship is, of course, not sexual. It doesn’t have the love and affection of a father/daughter relationship (they aren’t Buffy and Giles. That was love!), or even of a protective older brother figure (though I like JungleRed’s idea that Adam’s death may have triggered Don in some way on that path). They aren’t even really friends, at least in the way most people define the term. But they do have loyalty and trust in each other.
In trying to put my finger on just what the Don/Peggy relaionship is, this occurred to me: The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad (when neither my inner Buffy-geek nor film-geek can come up with a good comparison, I fall back on being an English major
). For those who don’t know the story, it’s about a sea captain who finds a man in the ocean, an escapee from a more brutal ship, hides him in his cabin from his own crew and the ship searching for him, and helps him to escape. Besides the two literal meanings (they share things in secret and have secrets that they share), the term ’secret sharer’ has a more metaphorical meaning in that the captain recognizes, almost instinctively, that he and his passenger have a shared identity, that however they each may have gotten there, their characters are much the same, and that by saving him he is also saving himself. (You can tell I was an English major, right? 
)
Don and Peggy share things in secret (Don tutoring Peggy on advertising) and have secrets that they share. And I think that Don slowly came to realize that Peggy’s situation was just like his. It may even have begun in the very first episode, in the scene where she “offers” herself, and he turns it down. At that moment he must have seen that she wasn’t doing it out of passion, but because she thought it was expected of her, because she figured that that’s how she had to play the game. Don must have been in that position once, too (I, too, would love to see a flashback or two of just how he entered the white-collar world). As time passed he learned that she had talent and ambition, and, after her post-election night outburst, that trying to enter this new world was costing her a moral price. By the time she had the baby, and Don found out about it, he must have decided that he had to be the one to rescue her.
The one thing that worries me is that Don may have the loyalty and trust between them tested. I’m wondering if the scene between Don and the head of Mohawk Airlines could be foreshadowing. Don is not the captain of his ship. If circumstances arose where he might have to throw Peggy overboard to protect his job, what would he do? If he didn’t stand up for her, it might be the one thing that would make me lose sympathy for him.
August 28th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Melville, I really liked your last 2 paragraphs (and the rest too but the those really hit home). I’ve actually found myself wondering though if Duck and Roger will push Don too far and he’ll go and set up his own agency taking Peggy with him and who knows who else.
SC is stuck in the past to some degree and although Don is kind of old fashioned he is a chameleon who isn’t afraid to expose himself to new ideas – foreign films, promoting Peggy, etc. I wouldn’t even be surprised to see him take Pete with him. But at some point Pete needs to overcome his own insecurities to some degree and let his own actually forward thinking viewpoint come through.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Melville – that’s an awesome allusion, and totally relevant …
One of the underlying themes, if I remember the story properly, is that the captain’s actions are never fully explained, making his protection of the escapee open for interpretation. One is that we don’t always know why we do the things we do (sound familiar?) – or more accurately, that the reasons for many of our actions are unknowable.
Thanks for adding that reference point!
August 28th, 2008 at 11:44 am
If Don leaves S-C, he’s going to take Peggy and Sal with him. In a smaller shop, away from corporate America, Sal won’t have to worry about who he is as much. While S-C would fire Sal if they found out about his personal life, Don would tolerate it as long as he didn’t end up in the papers due to an arrest, or mix business with pleasure.
Ever since the Hobo Code I knew that Don and Peggy were connected. I can’t wait to see where the relationship goes. It’s one of the many things that keeps me tunning in week after week.
August 28th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Melville, that’s a great reference, and certainly underscores the connection between Don and Peggy. There has been speculation on the interwebz that Don sent Meditations in an Emergency to Peggy, which I think is an interesting theory, and something I might agree with — especially given what you just said and what we learned in The New Girl. The only thing that prevents me from supporting this theory wholeheartedly is the fact that he mailed the book, rather than giving it to her personally or arranging for her to receive it in a more direct way. If anyone can convince me why he would do this, I’d change my verdict from Rachel to Peggy in a minute.
Damn this show for giving me too much to think about.
August 28th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
I totally agree, RetroGirl. I would not be surprised to see Draper-Romano with Peggy as creative director, and then she’s promoted to partner when she gets an offer to start her own agency. This is a few years from now, of course. She’s the Mary Wells Lawrence in the equation.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
@ hullabaloo # 24
There has been speculation on the interwebz that Don sent Meditations in an Emergency to Peggy
I LOVE this idea!! Re-read the poem with that in mind and it’s utterly beautiful. Makes me like Don ten times more:
“Now I am quietly waiting
for the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.
The country is grey and
brown and white in trees,
snows and skies of laughter
always diminishing, less funny
not just darker, not just grey.
It may be the coldest day of
the year, what does he think of
that? I mean, what do I? And if I do,
perhaps I am myself again.”
Wonderful.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Except…
in Shoot, Don laid it out that he is not interested in leaving SC for more advertising. If this series were to land on a happy ending (which, please, it so won’t), Sal and Peggy will start their own shop. Don will ride off into some other sunset.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
I don’t remember verbatim, but the inscription Don writes in the book seemed somewhat longing and wistful (“thinking of you” type of thing) … not the words you would use for someone you see every day in the office.
Cool thought, tho.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Exactly, B.Coop. The inscription, the mailing of the book, using the excuse of having to walk the dog in order to mail it–all scream Rachel, rather than Peggy. But if somebody could present me with convincing arguments for any of those in regards to Peggy, I’d be all over that theory.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Plus, he signed it “D”. And until this last episode, he was Mr. Draper.
Rachel, or Midge, or there’s the option that it is someone who knows him as Dick.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
His note said “Made me think of you.” I was in the Rachel-getting-the book-camp, too. But Peggy is an interesting choice as well (particularly after I re-read the stanza that Melville posted.
If it is Peggy, I would argue that he wouldn’t risk giving her something so personal at work. How could he get away with that? He has to keep his distance, like he does everyone else. The guys all suspect that Don had something to do with her absence and “charmed career” as it is.
Also, when Bobbie is at Peggy’s apt. in “The New Girl,” after the accident, Peggy tells her that Don promoted her to copywriter. Bobbie says something like “I bet you got yourself promoted… All these books.” Why mention the books?
August 28th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
I think the Peggy angle for the book is interesting. He wouldn’t sign anything to her Mr. Draper, in offices often the boss just uses their initial for notes about things. Not sure I entirely buy he was sending it to Peggy though but interesting thought.
Roberta – yes he said he wasn’t interested in leaving SC for further advertising in that episode but it’s 14 months later and Duck is there. I could see him doing it for revenge.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
latenac, all good points. I thought of the not signing anything Mr. Draper right after I posted.
August 28th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Nothing from the brief exchange in the restaurant seems like a clue that Rachel had received a book of poetry from Don … particularly the “he’s always talking business” line.
I’m scratching her off the list …
August 28th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Okay. That makes good sense. I’ll buy it. So that takes care of the inscription. But what about the mail…in the middle of the night?
That, too, is a good explanation, but really? They’re “creatives” at an ad agency. They draw inspiration from anything and everything. It wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for him to give her a book of poetry or anything that might inspire her or help her creativity. I’m sure he’s passed on similar things to Paul and Sal, just as he was probably given things by that guy Teddy, and even Midge.
I’m so conflicted…
Eh, I gotta get back to work. But I’m going to ponder this some more.
August 28th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
It’s the content of the poem itself that makes me like the Peggy theory. Don wrote “made me think of you,” but how would those lines apply to Rachel? They apply to how Don feels post-Rachel, but it would be presumptuous of him to think they apply to Rachel herself. But for Peggy they fit beautifully, especially coming from Don, perhaps the one person who knows what she’s going through, can understand it, and even can offer her some hope (“if I do, perhaps I am myself again.”)
August 28th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
You know it might not be anyone we actually have seen. Maybe someone else came into the picture, there was a brouhaha at home leading to Betty’s comment this episode about how he had promised to not disappear like that again.
August 28th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
So much for my work ethic…
This really got me to thinking: Peggy just might be the recipient of the book. That would be such an interesting development. I had to go back and re-watch the scenes of Peggy and Don in the hospital, Peggy in Don’s office asking for the money, and Don mailing the book. I guess that’s why having an iPod in your purse is important. Heh.
Anyway, I paid attention to the music this time. David Carbonara has always been very specific about his musical cues and what they mean to the scene. These instances were no different. The scenes between Don and Peggy were very light on music. I couldn’t really discern whether there was music, actually. But the sequence where he finishes the book, then mails it? The music was evident. It sounded like something he’d used before. Maybe not exactly the same, but a variation on a theme. To me, it sounded like the music from Long Weekend — the end, when Don and Rachel were on the couch and the segue into the end credits. Anybody with a really good ear for music care to have a listen?
August 28th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I’m going to check it out right now.
God, I love iTunes!
August 28th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
I’ve listened to it a couple of times. It sure sounds similar, but I couldn’t say it’s the same exact piece. That’s a great observation about the music though. The Sopranos always used music beautifully to help tell the story and I’m sure Weiner & Co. is doing the same.
August 28th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
I just figured it out. It’s Don’s Theme! They used it in The Hobo Code when he told Bobby he’d never lie to him.
I think I’m gonna change my vote to Peggy…
August 28th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
I love the idea that Don sent Peggy the book. Maybe “all these books” are gifts from him, to help guide her into becoming a star copy writer.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Uh oh, Brenda … that could totally be it.
Sunnovabitch.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
I’m so curious to know… was what we saw last week the extent of Don and Peggy’s behind-the-curtain relationship, or does it go deeper?
Sexual or not, maybe this somehow plays into the tighter rules that Betty laid down.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
I don’t think Peggy was the recipient of the book at all. The circumstances of the mailing – secretive and impulsive (he goes out in the middle of the night!) and something that clearly must be hidden from Betty – suggest either Rachel or some other character from his past that he’d rather no-one, especially his wife, knew about. I doubt Betty or anyone else would care if Don gifted Peggy with an interesting new book of poetry, nor do I think Don would suddenly feel the need to run out into the night, using dog-walking as a cover, to send a book to someone he sees every single day. The way that book-mailing was framed struck me as Don desperately needing to share some huge emotional revelation and/or to reinstate a relationship with someone he connected with/trusted/felt deeply about at some point – maybe even someone he felt he needed to thank in some way. Which doesn’t suggest Peggy to me even in the light of the revelations in TNG.
I almost ruled Rachel out after the scene in the restaurant but then again, her new husband was there and Don was (flirting) with another woman. It was an incredibly awkward meeting which neither party were expecting – certainly not the time to be discussing unexpected gifts of poetry from ex-lovers. So to my mind, it still could be Rachel but I’m leaning more toward the ‘mystery figure from the past’ more than ever. Hopefully all will be revealed by the season’s end.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
While I initially thought the book would go to Rachel, as he seemed to have the most profound connection with her last season I would not rule Peggy out of the running. Actually now I would have an easier time believing it was Peggy or someone we have not met than Rachel. When discussing their relationship’s end Jon Hamm says something about how Don revealed a great amount of vulnerability only to have her rebuff him, which might not be something Don could get over. The loss of Menken’s as a client would have been adding insult to injury.
As for why if it were for Peggy would it be sent so secretly… Part of it is not to arouse suspicion from others in the office, and part me be that he would not be able, or willing to communicate beyond the book. She gets the book, no conversation. At this point they may both be too reserved too talk about the feelings the poems inspire, but still have the need to see them acknowledged.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
I just don’t know. That book is definitely this year’s pregnancy. And remember what Weiner did with that? He hid it in plain sight. So it could be any of the people we naturally assumed it would be, or it could be someone else entirely. I think I’m going to stop speculating about it…
Nah, who am I kidding.
August 29th, 2008 at 12:20 am
I think the Don-Peggy connection is both simpler and more complicated than it appears. The simple connection is that Peggy makes him look good, without the complicating factor of him being sexually attracted to her. I think that is why she is still wearing that stupid pony tail and those Catholic Schoolgirl getups even though she works in Manhattan.
Don is a standup guy in a lot of ways, and one of those ways is that he takes care of those who show him loyalty.
I am seeing a lot of parallels between Peggy and Rachel this season. They are both intelligent, strong women who don’t “fit.” They both seem committed to career, not family when that was really unheard of. They both transcended the teacher/nurse/model/secretary female career menu. Peggy of course because of Don’s sponsorship, but they both show an underlying drive that I think Don finds very intriguing. All three are completely self made and loners.
August 29th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
I find it interesting that everybody seems to agree that whatever the relationship between Don & Peggy, it’s not sexual. I’m not so sure that will remain true; wouldn’t THAT be a kick in the head! A late night brainstorming session….a couple of drinks…..a lowering of defenses on both sides…and BAM! We’re all sitting there with our mouths open saying “Did that just happen??”
August 29th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
soup… I’ve been thinking the same thing for days. I’ve actually been afraid to say it.
Don may have been instrumental in her full recovery. Maybe sent her away to get some kind of rest, and then maybe the rumor was true; maybe it was fat farm instead of funny farm.
And then? Who knows what else.
Bobbie kept asking point blank… are you in love with him? Answer: I’m not your competition.
I love this show, and I am loving this season.
August 29th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
What I loved about that coversation between Bobbie and Peggy was the lightness and precision of Peggy’s answers. She is a tough customer; she thinks before she speaks. She does not speak to reveal, but to conceal.
Peggy speaks, in short, like a man. She does not want to be understood; she wants to be in control. “I answered your question.”
Bobbie, used to being handled in that way by men, showed surprise in sharing such a dialogue with a woman — and kept trying to work around it.
“You’re so young and beautiful.” For example. Peggy ignored that. I think she truly does not care.
And I loved what Peggy did with Bobbie’s advice at the end of her stay: she saw right through it, considering the source (a woman who relies on her wiles — whatever she thinks those are — in navigating the world), and interpreting Bobbie’s message to suit her own needs.
Then Peggy acted: she used her memory of that evening and her relationship with her boss to get her money back, and to further level the field between them. She solidified her new status with her use of Don’s first name: effectively taking everything Bobbie had said to her (“you’re not a man”), and rendering it completely irrelevant.
I’ll say it again. Peggy is the future. Don told her to move forward; she did. She always will. Not unlike a Sherman tank.
August 29th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
I love the non-answerishness of that answer…..competition for WHAT? is the question. Competition to be Don’s lover? (easy answer) Slut of the year? Married to a boorish comedian?
Non-sequitur: Does anybody else think that Hamm looks a like young Deniro?
August 29th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
She does not speak to reveal, but to conceal.
Genius.
“You’re so young and beautiful.” For example. Peggy ignored that. I think she truly does not care.
I think she cares. The scene in the Wheel with Annie, the voiceover actor, showed me she cares. She thinks, or thought at the time, that beauty equals confidence, and she was pretty sure she didn’t have either.
I think she doesn’t want to care. What did being young and beautiful bring her? And really? Beautiful? “You’re not much, so enjoy it while you can”. I think she is tired of hearing that she is, that she isn’t. I think she’s tired of what it means in the world to be either pretty or ‘less-than’.
And I think we’re going to see her continue to reclaim her prettiness, as she heals. She’s now, based on Bobbie’s words, going to integrate the control she’s exercised while being manlike, with the power of being a woman.
Fingers crossed. It’s a lot to take on. Plus um… she’s kind of a weird girl.
August 29th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
soup, I think he looks like Gregory Peck. Old school handsome.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:20 am
She solidified her new status with her use of Don’s first name: effectively taking everything Bobbie had said to her (”you’re not a man”), and rendering it completely irrelevant.
Judging from the last shot of Peggy in “Maidenform”, I rather doubt it. Besides, Bobbie gave some good advice. Peggy isn’t really going to get anywhere acting like a man. It will only get her so far, as she found out in the last episode. I’m not saying that she should whore herself or anything. And I think she allowed matters to go to far when she ended up in that client’s lap. But she is a woman. And being a woman . . . even in the world of business . . . is not as much a handicap as many would believe.