Re: Reading Request.

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Roger Books wrote:

> On  1-Apr-02 at 20:29, John Atkinson (johnmatkinson@yahoo.com) wrote:
> > 
> > --- Brian Burger <yh728@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > Clancy and Heinlein write exactly the same sort of
> > > female characters, have
> > > you noticed? (Strawperson, surely?) The type can
> > > broadly be defined as
> > > "overachieving until hubby comes home"...
> > 
> > I'd take exception to this comment (re: RAH.  Clancy,
> > I would note, is not known for his relationship with
> > women) if you would elaborate a bit more.  Exactally
> > what do you mean?
> 
> I'm not the original poster but I think I can field this.
> Most	of RAH's women are extremely attractive, extremely
> intelligent, and their main goal in life is to stay
> home and have children.  From my viewpoint they seem
> to be genius level fluff.
> 
> Now, if it were just one or two I wouldn't mind, but it
> occurs over and over.  It finally made me give up on
> anything written after Friday.  A genius who knows her
> place is to be barefoot and pregnant is just as much
> a sexist stereotype as someone that needs her man
> to constantly care for her.

Fielded very nicely, Roger. Thanks. This is exactly what I meant wrt
Heinlein.

However, it is also very OT by now, so I think we can call it here.

Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -
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