>Hey, I like Doc Savage, but you have to admit--he's a total dunce when
>it comes to women. Mind you, I didn't want to do a deconstruction of
>the man, but I did want to shine a slightly different light on him.

Oh sure, but I always saw him as someone more like Benton Fraser (or the Middleman ;) ) Not so much
"'myopic,' 'misogynistic,' 'parochial' and 'hidebound'", as terminally at sea regarding the female gender. :D

>As we're on the subject, I wonder how many people got all the jokes
>that I threw in?

I'm never sure what's a joke and what's just the way UF characters tend to banter. :)