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http://inverarity.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] inverarity.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] inverarity 2012-11-17 09:19 pm (UTC)

Oh, I admit I put my biases right out there, but I probably would have liked it if I'd read it in high school, too, though I like to think I'd have seen at least some of its problems.

The problem with Heinlein trying to create a world with "no double standard" is that while that may have been his intention, it's still very much a world in which women behave precisely in accordance with male fantasies, and never the reverse (unless you actually believe that what all women really want is to be spanked and cuddled by men old enough to be their grandfathers).

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