YMMV / Lads' Love

• Values Dissonance:
  • Peter Chrystie beating his servants, though not approved, is Played for Laughs.
  • When Rab is about to take ship for America, Nance sings a verse of a song about emigration - which contains two racial slurs and a jocular reference to scalping Native Americans. It's especially jarring as there's nothing else like it in the book.
  • The Hoolet ending up married to Nathan Murdoch is treated as a happier ending than the alternative - sadly Truth in Television for the era.
• Values Resonance: Confronted with the notion that the Hoolet is eternally damned for, essentially, being a victim of rape by deception, Alec's reaction is "then away with such gods!". And it's clear that Crockett, though a former Presbyterian minister himself and writing in a period when such attitudes were still prevalent, agrees.