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Article Mentioned: entertainment.time.com/2012/05/30/mad-men-character-study-cleopatra-joan

Joan Holloway wasn’t a perfect feminist, she was a realistic one.

Mad Men wasn’t just about men in suits, it was about the women who had to survive inside a rigged system. If Joan didn’t make the choices she did, progress wouldn’t have come at all.

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