Hemingway comes to mind. His short story Hills Like White Elephants is basically him skewering himself and men like him.
Roddenberry had something similar going on, at least later on. Note his obsession with what he wanted to add to the Feringi, like their huge packages and shit and then remember how much he was trying to make them loathsome.
That and the capitalism focus of the Feringi when Roddenberry did his own ruthless things for money makes me wonder if Gene made much of them out of his own demons.
[quote=Yukaphile post_id=57971 time=1564522785 user_id=1793Gene strikes me as conservative. My grandfather was pure-bred working man liberal, and he did not cheat around, and he thought the world of women, and could look on even a hooker with class.
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How the hell do you turn such a thing into a political spectrum matter?
If we're going by "my grandfather" anecdotes I could say much the same thing about my own grandfather, and go a little bit further due to my family's pragmatic streak (my grandmother was better at math and record keeping, he refused to touch the finances himself even when others prodded him about it because he didn't want to mess it up for her), yet I hardly think you'd have found him to be a Leftie by any measure if only given our Pentecostal history which started with him and my grandmother and their reaction to the excesses of the Roaring Twenties.
The same went for my grandmother who was completely against feminism due to the anti-family, anti-children sentiment she sensed in it despite living, and imparting it onto her daughters, a life centered out a world view of "equal opperunity and equal pay for equal work".
