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** The absence of circumcision could be a straight example, if Farmer failed to anticipate how multiculturalism and rising immigration from Africa and the Middle East would make this practice more of a statement of ethnic identity than ever.
* Modern readers of Walter Miller's post-apocalyptic classic, ''[[A Canticle for Leibowitz]]'' may find some of the future church's views to be a bit...antiquated. This is due to the novel being written just a few years previous to Vatican II, and thus including none of its changes.
* The [[Robert A. Heinlein]] novel ''[[Podkayne
** Pretty much all of Heinlein's work is prone to this. ''[[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]]'', for instance, despite showcasing many cultural differences in the lunar society (not the least of which is ubiquitous polyamories) portrays gender issues much as a 1950s writer would be expected to think of a post-feminist world: touching women without their permission is a major societal taboo... but it is up to the woman's ''male'' friends or relatives to protect her, and women are still generally considered unintelligent (or at least irrational or illogical) and unfit for many positions. The main reason the culture's attitudes towards women have changed at all is that women are a substantial minority on Luna. The rival Earth society, where the sexes are still 50/50 in numbers, shows female nurses giggling at having their rears pinched, rather than filing harassment lawsuits.
** ''[[The Puppet Masters (novel)|The Puppet Masters]]'' was published in 1951 and set in 2007. Although the heroine is just as tough and capable as the male lead (sometimes more so), the moment gender roles or romantic relationships come up she turns, hilariously, into June Cleaver.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' tried to avert this. On one hand, they had minorities and women in Starfleet, which was [[Fair for Its Day|progressive for the '60s]], and [[Everybody Smokes|no one smoking]]. But the women were still wearing miniskirts as military uniforms and, although never explicitly told to [[Stay in the Kitchen]], they were often portrayed as [[
** In the episode "The Enemy Within", evil!Kirk tries to rape Yeoman Rand. She later recounts the incident for good!Kirk, Spock and McCoy, displaying a very '60s attitude about it ("I don't want to get you into trouble. I wouldn't even have mentioned it.") ''while being in tears''. And this is while she is unaware that there are two Kirks running around!
** Probably the worst example was in "[[Star Trek/Recap/S3 E24 Turnabout Intruder|Turnabout Intruder]]", the last episode of the original series, which reveals that ''women aren't allowed to be captains in Starfleet,'' in the 23rd century. A female character who tries to get around this rule by using alien technology to switch bodies with Kirk is portrayed as being a horribly misguided fanatic.
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