Who promoted Major Marvy?

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Penny Padgett wrote:

> Chalk this up to an insufficiently-rooted-out chauvinist
> reflex if you must, but ... What did Major Marvy do that was
> so bad?  Vulgar, loud-mouthed, bigoted to be sure.  Child-labor
> baron, overweight -- no problem.  But are any of these castratable
> offenses?  Who decided to do the deed, and why?  Is Marvy just
> a cheap-thrill, we-won-a-temporary-victory-over-Them kind of deal?
> 
> Penny

I don't have GR here with me, and it's been a long while since my last
reading, but I distinctly remember there being _something_ that Marvy did
where my opinion of him went from thinking of him as just a bigoted
loud-mouthed idiot to realizing that he was an evil person and definitely
a willing agent of Them.  The castration, in one of the great ironies in
the book, resulted from a case of mistaken identity.  Marvy had donned
Slothrop's abandoned pig suit, and the goons who were supposed to castrate
Slothrop got Marvy by mistake.  I do think it's likely that this scene is
thrown in as a sort of a bone in a "temporary victory" sort of way.