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This would be a good basis for a discussion regarding Barb versus Grace in Farnham's...but I'll leave that alone. I'll just say that I agree with his line, and with both JDs and your response. Part of me imagined a little more controversy in that line than there appears to be, I guess.

Oh, and as far as my earlier comment regarding Mary's "test" and your (Molly) comment "I'd say that he's insulting men more by suggesting that every non hag-ridden man that Mary comes in to contact with, responds to her physically" was the sexism I did recognize there. To simplify the interrelation of the genders to pure physicality is somewhat insulting, in my opinion. There is so much more to the interaction of gender. Besides, I feel bad for the homosexual man, or the guy that has an aversion to "A long, lean body, but unquestionably and pleasuringly mammalian" with "Flaming, wavy red hair and the real red-headed saurian bony structure to her skull" (I've heard those men do exist), or the guy that is a devout abstainer and believes it in his core being. It seems that Heinlein would have them shot on sight!