Futrelle’s penned prejudices, moreover, need a rewrite. They are wishy-washy and inconsistently doled out. In a 2013 piece on discrimination, for example, he spotlights Mad Men, the hit TV series set in the 1960s, as an example of the inequality and subservience women were forced into at the time. His object of admiration in the series is a smart, upward climbing character played by another powerful, beloved female entertainer who also happens to be a Scientologist.