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** Bluefur in ''Bluestar's Prophecy'' also evokes Firestar Syndrome throughout the book. It takes three different cats to get her to admit that Thrushpelt has feelings for her, despite the fact that he was frequently staring at her, inviting her on patrols, and cracking jokes that only seem to irk her.
*** Not to mention the fact that she didn't even realize her ''own'' not-so-subtle attraction to Oakheart until he confessed his love to her.
* One story in Mack Reynolds' ''Section G'' [[Spy Fiction]] [[In Space]] had [[MataSeductive HariSpy|Li Chang Chu]] abandon subtlety, pointing out to top agent Ronny Bronston that they were alone together in a stateroom with the door locked and no other demands on their time. Particularly funny in that he'd been hot for her about as long as she'd been for him, but didn't think he had a chance—despite being well aware that women found him very attractive. He just didn't realize '''''this''''' woman did, too.
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''Juvenile'' books often had young male protagonists that were oblivious to girls. They were otherwise intelligent, so either they were just blind to people or just not interested in females. However, one of his stories (''[[The Menace From Earth]]'') had a male only oblivious to the protagonist. She was rather upset when he noticed another woman.
** This was a case of [[Executive Meddling]]—Alice Dalgleish, children's book editor for Charles Scribners & Sons, had very firm opinions on how much "suggestive" content was "proper" for juvenile novels (absoluteabsolutely zero), and ruthlessly quashed anything Heinlein wrote that even remotely hinted that teenaged males might possibly have a sex drive. Heinlein didn't even try to write romance into his stories until after he changed publishers and stopped writing juveniles. (''The Menace From Earth'' was '''not''' first published by Scribners, note.) Also, even though Dalgliesh was an extreme case, virtually no editors in the 40s and 50s would approve anything but the most ultimately chaste romance material for young adult novels.
** It may have been [[Executive Meddling]], but the ''girls'' in the stories were practically ripping their clothes off and the guy was just utterly clueless. "Gee, why did she take my side against her own uncle and risk everything for me and spends time with me and is always ready to help me with anything I need?" "I guess she just wants to be my very good friend". HELLO?!
*** Heinlein's historical reaction to [[Executive Meddling]] was to push the limits as far as he could get away with, so that's intentional.
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