Timeline for Is there a generally accepted critical and/or feminist response to Heinlein's work? [closed]
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| Oct 12, 2017 at 19:23 | comment | added | Jon Kiparsky | "Can anyone back this up or refute it?" No. These are not falsifiable claims, so the best you can hope is that people will pile on with more bafflegab, as has already happened, and more irrelevant facts from Heinlein's personal life (which does not inform your reading of his fiction). | |
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| Jan 13, 2016 at 12:29 | comment | added | Arammil | Critics, especially feminists critics, are always quick to point out that any female character is both too strong and / or too weak, depending upon the particular critic. That particular line of thinking is sexist and limiting in its own right (attempting to define what femininity is or is not, when no such definition is either possible or desireable). In lieu of caring, I elect to ignore feminist critiques that concern themselves with 'how female is this particular character' as it is simply a waste of time. | |
| Jan 13, 2016 at 9:22 | comment | added | user14111 | Damon Knight's essay on Heinlein is Chapter 7 in his book In Search of Wonder. The title of that chapter is "One Sane Man". | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 3:59 | answer | added | morewry | timeline score: 21 | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 6:02 | comment | added | joshbirk | I still remember to this day having a conversation with a fem lit professor when I brought up Heinlein. The conversation changed. Abruptly. | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 5:43 | answer | added | user2490 | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 1:26 | comment | added | user2490 | There were times when he took heat for being too feminist. As a guest commentator alongside Walter Cronkite during an Apollo mission, he reduced Cronkite to spluttering by saying that women should be allowed to be astronauts. | |
| Mar 1, 2013 at 7:29 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/307392198113116161 | ||
| Feb 22, 2013 at 15:12 | comment | added | Adele- Nexus of Potlucks | I was more looking for "this person has said he was/was not sexist for x reason." | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 15:05 | comment | added | jwenting | @DVK we're in the metaverse after all, especially if we're now to generate objectively subjective answers. Or was that subjectively objective answers? ;) | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 14:58 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | @jwenting - too meta :) | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 12:08 | comment | added | jwenting | and anyone taking one book and automatically disqualifying any argument that's backed up by it automatically disqualifies himself from the argument by definition. | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 11:06 | answer | added | Donald.McLean | timeline score: 27 | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 10:56 | comment | added | Michael Borgwardt | @Donald.McLean: obviously, no single book can back up any blanket statement about an author's entire work, but I couldn't resist mentioning one that fits the statement in question so well... | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 10:47 | comment | added | Donald.McLean | @MichaelBorgwardt - any comment about Heinlein containing a reference to I Will Fear No Evil is automatically void. Pretty much everyone agrees that, at the very least, it is by far his worst book. | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 9:23 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage♦ | @jwenting yes, in the most part, but 'good subjective' is acceptable too. As a mod I could put the spiel on the question. In short instead of the subjective "RAH was sexist!" you have "I think he is sexist because of [Point, Evidence, Explain]" It's still your opinion but backed up with facts and figures. tl;dr, as Objective as Subjective gets whilst still being subjective. | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 8:18 | comment | added | jwenting | @Pureferret I thought we wanted objective answers? :) | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 0:44 | answer | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | timeline score: 66 | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 0:06 | comment | added | K-H-W | People make a lot of claims about RAH, he was: Fascist, Sexist, Racist, couldn't write women, etc., but usually these people have only read a few of his works. (E.g., Fascism -- reconcile Starship Troopers with Stranger and RAH as a fascist.) Re: Women, I defy anyone to tell me that 'Puddin' (or Maureen and / or Podkayne, who were based on her) was basically a man. As a rule, his women were more competent than his men; less self-aggrandizing, perhaps, but overall smarter, more skilled and more capable. (Unsurprising in someways, if you know anything about Virginia Heinlein.) | |
| Feb 21, 2013 at 23:50 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 21, 2013 at 23:35 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | Post modernist and associated critique can not be objective, by design. | |
| Feb 21, 2013 at 23:33 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage♦ | We're looking for Good subjective answers here. Please back them up with a reputable source! | |
| Feb 21, 2013 at 23:16 | comment | added | Michael Borgwardt | "I Will Fear No Evil" backs that up pretty strongy, especially the first point (as part of the plot, no less). | |
| Feb 21, 2013 at 23:04 | history | asked | Adele- Nexus of Potlucks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |