Do they become his personal armsmen or the office's? And now that I think more about it, i'm not sure enough of how it worked to know whether it was a glitch on her part or not......

"limited second-wave foremother"--excellent phrase and observation, and I say that as someone who came into feminism in the early 1980s via the Second Wave (and over the years has found that only Joanna Russ' work is worth revisiting).