[lbo-talk] Re: Travis McGee [Hard boiled philosophy]

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Jim Devine" <jdevine03 at gmail.com>
>
>On 5/15/06, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>Let me put in a good word for another MacDonald -- John D. , the 
>>incredibly
>>prolific author of the Travis McGee series, now all but forgotten for some
>>strange reason.  McGee wasn't quite as hard-boiled as other PIs and was 
>>more
>>contemporary in social sensitivity.
>
>I think I've read all of these. McGee was "contemporary in social
>sensitivity," yes, but the era was one dominated by homophobia. If I
>remember correctly, he and Meyer once ridicule a bad guy because he
>had "legs like a woman." (a paraphrase. I don't see how this is
>possible.) Worse, at one point, he picks a fight with a lesbian,
>simply because she's a lesbian.

Make that "selective homophobia."  Again, Meyer's boat was named "John 
Maynard Keynes." (Apologies to you, Lydia Lopokova Keynes, wherever you 
are.)

Carl