Ok, Ok, Ok. But, can we try to remember that his books were mostly written in the middle of the 20th century when the independence of women was LITERALLY joked about? The idea of a woman defending herself, making her own decisions about her sexuality, and living independantly would have been mocked. LOUDLY. Women for a long time have been nothing but the pets of men. He STARTED writing books around WWII. People are usually the product of their times. The world you grew up in is not the world he grew up in.
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Date: 2003-05-19 09:02 (UTC)*Dimple climbs off of her soapbox*