Webb didn't break any laws, I'm not advocating tossing him in the klink. But is this really the sort of guy we want running the country?
He wrote about an immoral act. Authors do it all the time, its part of fiction. Without conflict there is no story. There are books with rape, murder, torture in them. Are the authors of those books bad people. In the book does he say 'giving little boys hummers is a great idea'? From the sound of it he paints it as a bad thing, in a book about the moral hellhole life is after Vietnam.


Also, the attempt to portray him as a misogynist is laughable. Feminist critics tried to do the same thing with Hemingway in the 70s. I'm sorry, but I cannot take anyone seriously who objects to the portrayal of women as they are instead of how modern progressive thought would like them to be. Thousands of modern pulp writers do cave to the percieved pressure, peppering their books with "ideal" female characters that have no relation to reality.
Let's see:
1) Hemingway had 'strong women' in his stories. Hills Like White Elephants being one.
2) It's funny you mention Hemingway. Hemingway wrote about how he thought men should be. Not about how they actually are. Check his suicide on that one.
3) Dropping a label on half the human population seems rather dumb. I'm sure out of 3 billion people you're going to find all types. Did you get dumped recently or something?