In a message dated 9/16/02 6:40:33 PM, Mark Sullivan
writes:
<< Kind of related to this, I recognise the sexism (but
not misogyny) of McGee. I think it's kind of quaint and
always kind of smiled at it as tied to its time. However, how
do female readers take it? >>
This female reader thinks John D. was writing in the '60s and
'70s when Hugh Hefner and James Bond and Twiggy were shaping
the pop image of women: creampuffs on an assembly line.
There's a distance in MacDonald, almost a squeamishness. The
closest he gets to being McGee is in passages like the one
(roughly remembered) "a parade is a group and I'm not a group
animal.' He isn't McGee. If he identifies with anyone, it's
Meyer, the one-named economist.
About the title Boiling a Frog, to change the subject without
transition, what about M.F. K. Fisher's How to Cook a
Wolf.
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