So, interestingly enough... this most recent episode of Mad Men is called Babylon. (I say interestingly enough because one of my best friends comes home from Israel this week!) Sterling and Cooper gets an interesting new client: Israel Tourism. World War Two was long ago by this point, but there was still a strange stigma about Jewish people and Israel was in a very dangerous time. Don and his team were having a hard time figuring out how to attract people to Israel without using the 'overused religious angle'. Pete suggested embracing the danger and encourage people to go on and adventure. Since Don didn't like any of these ideas, he asks Peggy to set him up a private line and he calls the most attractive Jew he knows: Rachel. (For a refresher, Rachel runs her family department store. Don was rude to her when she refused to accept second rate ideas, like coupons, to improve the store. He apologized, and sexual tensions grew. He made an advance. She was into it. He admitted to being married. She ran away and demanded for him to be taken off her account. This was their last encounter.) He told her he needed to meet with her for business purposes, and she reluctantly obliged. He tried to get her to take her walls, but she seemed to be keeping them up--that was until she got back to the office. She called her sister and confessed that she liked a guy and wanted to allow him to pursue her regardless of his being 'limited'.

Another disturbing relationship we see blossoming is between Rodger Sterling and Joan Holloway. Rodger and his wife, Mona, have been out to dinner with Don and Betty and have been becoming more prominent of roles in this episode. It is pretty clear by their interactions that, although they try to keep up appearances, they hate each other. They have a daughter, and Rodger seems to really not care too much for his own daughter. Rodger and Joan have been sneaking off to hotel rooms to....yeah. He keeps saying that he would like to go to her apartment instead because it is more intimate. Rodger seems more about the relationship that she is, and I think it drives him crazy. He said that he doesn't want to keep sneaking around, but she rebuts with the fact that she knows men and that sneaking around is his favorite part. She also tells him that she knows that he is going to get bored of her and start going after the newer models soon.

The third prominent event that occurs has to do with lipstick. A lipstick company is looking for a new campaign. The men have a hard time thinking up a new slogan since they don't think like women and are so insecure in themselves that they refuse to even try. They decide that what they need to do is put all the women in a room, and stare at them through one sided glass. Basically they make fun of everything the women do, while at the same time lusting after them. It is kind of sick. Luckily, Peggy shows potential and they give her some extra work to do in making the campaign go.

Obviously a major theme right now is infidelity. I think about the verse where Jesus says that even looking at a woman in lust causes infidelity in the heart. Every single man has shown to be a pig in this show. So many of the men have committed adultery and every single one of them treat the women like objects. It is really sad to me, but there it is.