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What part of that statement do you imagine that people should find offensive? That some people do want to be parents? Someone else mentioned The Unpleasant Pr
by GeekyBear 5y ago
What part of that statement do you imagine that people should find offensive?
That some people do want to be parents?
Someone else mentioned The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, a detective story Heinlein wrote in 1942.
The detective's wife is called out in the story as being the brains of the outfit, a very progressive notion in 1942.
Exceptionally competent women have been a staple in Heinlein stories forever.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> That some people do want to be parents? I think what people would most likely object to is the implication that every woman should want that.
- loki49152 5y agoThat's not in his work, though. That's in the insecurities of people who set out to be offended. The closest he gets is the characterization that's it's natural to women to have babies because their bodies are capable of it, and most women do or at least want to. That shouldn't even be controversial because it's borne out by all of human history.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> That's not in his work No, its pretty directly in his interview response, not his work: “I don't think there's much future in a gal who's thoroughly opposed to having babies.”