Timeline for Did Heinlein intend to portray men and women as equals?
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| Dec 21, 2023 at 18:18 | answer | added | Chris Sunami | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Dec 21, 2023 at 7:29 | answer | added | Michael Hardy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 11, 2018 at 20:37 | history | edited | morewry | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 11, 2018 at 20:03 | answer | added | morewry | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 27, 2018 at 23:40 | answer | added | user2490 | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jan 26, 2018 at 0:48 | comment | added | Misha R | I find his women to basically be subservient, constantly horny, sassy, and rarely in the position to be important movers of the narrative. If Heinlein is a feminist, it's certainly no feminism I'd subscribe to. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 16:05 | comment | added | K-H-W | Of relevance, this quote from RAH: “Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.” | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 11:02 | comment | added | user68762 | Heinlein: Forward-looking diversity advocate or sexist bigot? Yes | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 10:54 | answer | added | Broklynite | timeline score: 30 | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 10:50 | comment | added | Mr Lister | I thought he tried to portray women as superior, but that could just be my faulty memory. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 10:30 | comment | added | Broklynite | @Mawg Friday perhaps? | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 10:15 | comment | added | morewry | @Mawg Definitely something to consider. I'd suggest Maureen Johnson in To Sail Beyond the Sunset wasn't a sidekick. But a lot of the book IS about her relationships with various men in her life and she was subservient-ish to those men at times, so I don't argue she conclusively invalidates that perspective on her own. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 10:10 | comment | added | Mawg | IMO, while he tried to depict strong woman, they were still all subservient to, or a prop/sidekick for, a man. I don't, off the top of my head, remember a strong female character who did not have male at her side. Let the corrections begin ! ... | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 10:01 | history | asked | morewry | CC BY-SA 3.0 |