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Originally Posted by Razorback

1. By today’s standards, I would have to consider him sexist. But for his generation and for 1951 when this was written, I thought his overall views were on the progressive side.

I agree...I think that he actually insults both men and women a little though with Mary's "testing". If a man doesn't have an immediate physical response to her...HE'S AN ALIEN! What did you guys think of his line "Most women are damn fools and children..."

Originally Posted by Razorback

2. I’ll confess, I don’t recall what the “life-boat rules” are.

Both one and the same...by "life-boat rules", I just meant that shared decision making is fine until in survival mode, then "there can only be one boss".