Double Standard

April, 1963

Double StandardApril 11 -- I'm wondering whether what I'm feeling is shock, fear or wonder that the rules might be different, the other side of the glass. Morality, I'd always thought, was a constant. And it must be; two sets of rules wouldn't be fair. Their censor simply slipped up; that's all it could have been.Not that it matters, but it happened during a Western. I was Whitey Grant, Marshal of West Pecos, a fine rider, a fine fighter, an all-around hero. A gang of badmen came to town looking...