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This is going to sound like a dumb question, but what if the girls in the bars in Albuquerque really were playing coy to get free drinks? He's being honest abo
by Igelau 6y ago
This is going to sound like a dumb question, but what if the girls in the bars in Albuquerque really were playing coy to get free drinks?
He's being honest about his opinion of a certain set of women that was honed by experience. Gave no indication of generalizing that opinion to all women.
I'll admit he's always seemed like kind of a sleaze, but at the same time, we have almost completely lost the ability to parse the cat-and-mouse pattern of sexual activity in that era. Judging somebody about this retroactively seems like a bad idea. It's like reading Middle English (e.g. Chaucer): you kind of have an idea what's going on, but you also don't.
- jkmcf 6y agoHaving read about Feynman, as well as his books, my superficial takeaway is there was Feynman before his first wife's death, the "wicked" middle, and then his final, successful marriage. A lot of the stories are from the middle. Being exceptionally intelligent doesn't mean he was wise in the ways of life. Like many people, he was flawed, and after the traumatic death of his wife his participation in life was marred by his that lack of wisdom and perhaps his own intellectual approach to beating the "game". We irresponsibly expect perfection from heroes. If heroes aren't perfect, how can the average person be held to that metric? You'd have to cancel all of humanity (we really are shit, TBH).