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OK, I'll clarify. His attitude was a product of the time. I love that his fiction had strong female protagonists, but his everyday attitude toward women is typi
by fractallyte 7y ago
OK, I'll clarify. His attitude was a product of the time. I love that his fiction had strong female protagonists, but his everyday attitude toward women is typical of the era.
Mad Men illustrated this very well (slight spoiler: especially consider what happened to Peggy, by Pete, early in the series..). Women were expected to take a lot 'on the chin'. After all, guys will be guys, right?
If others raised eyebrows about his behavior, it was only because it was more risqué than normal, but not out of any consideration for the victims.
- roca 7y agoHis female protagonists were mostly sex objects. The only exceptions I can think of are Susan Calvin (who is portrayed as hardly a woman at all) and Arkady (too young, just).
- fractallyte 7y agoWanda? Bliss? Bayta?
- roca 7y agoI haven't read "Forward The Foundation" so I don't know about Wanda. Bayta was reasonable, I'll give him that. Bliss was embarrassing. Sexy goddess implausibly falls for elderly academic man ... can you say "authorial wish fulfillment"?