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I don't know, I don't disapprove of any of those things morally or anything, but it just got old eventually. As an example, somewhere in the later parts of the
by jacobmischka 5y ago
I don't know, I don't disapprove of any of those things morally or anything, but it just got old eventually. As an example, somewhere in the later parts of the book he talks about a period where he starts painting, and very shortly afterward he starts trying to convince women to let him paint them nude, including a student at the institution where he was a professor.
Again, I don't think there's anything wrong with nudity, or anything inherently sexual about nudity in art, or even anything morally wrong with the desire to see naked women. But by that point after some of his other stories I started to see him as a somewhat creepy dude and it just came off to me like, oh of course, shortly after taking up this interesting art form you'd go straight to using it as a reason to see naked women, typical Feynman.
I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with anything he did in any of his stories, all of the parties were consenting in them all, it just left an unpleasant taste in my mouth.
- chris_j 5y agoThanks for expanding. I had forgotten about the painting anecdote. As others have pointed out, a lot men in that era seemed similar in a way. I'd been assuming that going through all the changes that happened in the 60s as a middle aged man must have had a certain effect on them. Seeing expressions of sexuality go from being something very private, something to be ashamed of, to being something that the younger generation is much more open about. For example, I remember reading Asimov when I was a kid. His earlier books were all very buttoned up, with highly intellectual and in depth discussions of galactic politics or robots. Then his later books are full of sex. I gather that Asimov in his later years gained a reputation for being somewhat creepy too.