Moments of Permanence - because ranting to housemate.Dave is funny but inadequate

From: copracat Date: October 23rd, 2010 01:07 pm (UTC) (Link)

Part two: Heinlein doesn't think you're a worthwhile human being. If you're a man, you don't know enough maths, or if you do know enough maths, you don't know how to fire enough guns, or if you do, you're probably still not going to know how to slaughter hogs, deliver babies, or build a house. If you're a woman, well, unless you're being a genius at everything (including maths) while also popping out unsustainably large numbers of babies, he hates you too. Oh, and you should be gorgeously beautiful, obviously.

I kind of love you for this whole post, but particularly for the above. Heinlein doesn't think you're a worthwhile human being I laughed and laughed and laughed.

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From: dharma_slut Date: October 24th, 2010 07:59 pm (UTC) (Link)

I ditto this. It's going to be one of my favorite quotes forever more!

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From: sami Date: October 24th, 2010 08:22 pm (UTC) (Link)

Thanks?

Out of interest, did I get linked somewhere?

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From: dharma_slut Date: October 24th, 2010 08:25 pm (UTC) (Link)

nobody told you!

yes, you've been metafandomed. And rightly so, this is a rather brilliant post. (I always imagine HAH typing one-handed in a masturbatory frenzy in those last books-- the ones with all the incest.)

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From: sami Date: October 24th, 2010 08:48 pm (UTC) (Link)

Ah, that makes sense then.

In his defence, those books happened after he had a blocked artery cause oxygen starvation to part of his brain.

Other than that the only real defence for his character is that he was one of the first (if not the first, I'm not sure) major, big-name science fiction authors to feature non-white protagonists.

I try not to think about what he might have been thinking writing those, if only because Lazarus Long is such a Marty Stu and he travels back in time to bang his own mother and... gah. Basically.

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From: dharma_slut Date: October 24th, 2010 09:07 pm (UTC) (Link)

And women! Even if most of those women are Marty Stus with uteruses...

As goofy as those last books were? They sure can teach a writer how to handle scenes where a five people are all talking at once. That's wizardry, that is.

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From: sami Date: October 24th, 2010 08:22 pm (UTC) (Link)

It's truuuuuue

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