As Mad Men gears up for a new season, we have a video of most of the pickup lines that sent the second wave of feminism into orbit. I know I’m repeating myself, because writing this story feels familiar to me.

I hit 40 before I clearly understood that two men trying to get a woman into bed at the same time wasn’t as unusual as you might think.

Yes men are possessive but not for a playful romp among friends. Protecting your wife’s reputation and fertility is a matter totally different from a little testosterone release. There’s lots of that MFM innuendo going on in the “Mad Men School of Seduction” video.

The Mad Men School of Seduction

“Mad Men” is before my time, but as a fast-rising woman in the 1970s, I still had my hands full.

Note that men have always advanced my career — more so than women — so I dish out my comments about men in business carefully. There’s nothing worse than a woman who bites the hand that feeds her, and I don’t make a practice of it. 

Most women having my experience would head straight for the EVP of Human Resources, but that’s not how I handled my life. I was traveling with a senior man who had helped my rise with sincerity and salary increases, asking me to be passed over on a promotion for which I was clearly more qualified, with the understanding that a new senior position would be created for me. The men delivered and the less-qualified then me person resigned.