• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 months ago

    I don’t know if I would agree with you. Maybe he wasn’t misogynistic earlier in life, but by the end? Did you ever read Friday? It’s kind of disturbing. Yes, the main character is a woman who is better than a normal human through genetic engineering. She also enjoys getting raped.

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        8 months ago

        When the idea is “if you get gang raped, just lie back and enjoy it,” I think that says something about the person.

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          8 months ago

          Not always. If it was a constant them then yes, but Heinlen was complicated. It’s like saying Stephen king likes to murder people.

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          8 months ago

          That idea is also a very common thing in Ayn Rand’s writing too, which he’s said he was quite influenced by her writing in an interview in the mid 70s.