"A controversial statement," I thought, when a co-worker said it.  But then I considered the evidence:

- Peggy willingly spreads her legs for Pete and uses no form of birth control.  She later has the child and disowns it.

- Peggy picks up at a bar and ditches the guy in the middle of the night.

- Peggy sleeps with Duck.

The argument will be that she is trying to get away with the same things the men are, but is she really succeeding?  The abandoned child?  Being virtually disowned by her family?  Her career at a dead-end?

Talk.

Well, Joan is married now. So somebody had to fill in...

Oh, White Bread.  You are going to be so totally flamed.  What were you thinking?  Slut shaming is so 1963.  Healthy consensual sex is good for all.  Just play nicely.  Peggy should indulge when she feels like it.  I just hope that she does not think it will get her anywhere.  I think Duck would use her to get to Don, and then toss her aside. Be careful, Peggy!

"trying to get away with the same things the men are, but is she really succeeding"

I am not sure what we are getting away with.  Maybe less public shame?  Not so for John Edwards and other high profile philanderers. 

Depending on your moral compass, currently BOTH men and women could be tagged as unstable for the number of sexual partners they’ve had.   Although the word does not appear to exist (the male equivalent to ‘slut’) I think society is moving towards equality in both condemnation and indifference about the number of other people’s sexual partners. 

In my book three partners doesn’t come close to any concept of sluttyness. 

I disagree slightly with Jack’s outlook “Healthy consensual sex is good for all.  Just play nicely.  Peggy should indulge when she feels like it,”  people are too complex for that blanket statement.  Some people are less prone to escape healthy for I’ndulging when you feel like it’ – and for some no problem.  Not sure for Peggy, was her second fling enough to put the self doubt about her seeming lack of sexuality to rest?  The guy in the bar sure was a dork though.

Anyone else think the guy in the bar bore a passing physical resemblance to Pete?

I think that we'll find that she can't get away with it the way Don can. And it will probably come in a dramatic manner. Truth is, there's a double standard still when it comes to sex.

Midge is a good comparison from this show... she was a "free spirit" sexually speaking, but she was also self-employed. Peggy isn't as laid back and emotionally free as Midge. She's got all that religious guilt, whether she likes it or not. Where Midge is a free spirit, Peggy is rebelling against her upbringing. They're different motivations and should produce different consequences.

I am curious as to why 'whitebread' thinks Peggy's career is at a dead end...

Also, if her mom didn't disown her for the whole kid out of wedlock thing, she's not gonna disown her for moving to Manhattan.

That shtick Peggy's moms pulled was a classic Brooklyn mother move.

As far as her being a slut...her tryst w/Campbell may have been the 1st time she ever got laid...it backfired, but I can't kill her for that.  If you ever weren't gonna use contraception, 1960 was that time.  She should enjoy herself.  We know she learned from that time w/Pete by the way she asked the dude in the bar if he had a condom. 

And yes, she is succeeding.  She had a kid, but has no kid.  She got herself a nice office that the boys were afraid to ask for.  She got away with puffing that weed smoke in the office.  I wish I could do that!  LOL.  Also, she is the only one in creative under Don that anybody seems to be wooing.  It was Duck's idea to bring in Smitty and the gay slavic dude, and yet, you don't see Duck wooing either of them.

Talent + Vagina is gonna add up to a lot for Peggy!  Brooklyn holla.

peggy stoofed duck?  UGH!  she can do SO much better.......

Yeah, this was some sort of power-move by Duck.  His motivation doesn't lie in the conquest of women, unless I've missed something in the previous episodes.  Just not sure what his end-game is, unless he's making a legitimate power-play at Gray by trying to fill the ranks with his own people.  If he can't woo Peggy and Pete, that's probably an indication that his time with Gray may be coming to an end soon.