More specifically “Give in to temptation; you never know if it’ll pass your way again.”
If we relax the rules a bit here, most of the “Notebooks of Lazarus Long” apply. Many of Heinlein’s comments held a lot of value and have helped me be happy with who I’ve become in the 36 years since I started reading the words he put on pages.
Enjoy your life whenever you can, and hopefully find someone to enjoy it with. The end comes sooner than you know.
Despite Heinlein’s rampant misogyny, I have definitely enjoyed some of his works. I find the aphorisms of Lazarus Long somewhat apropos given our current circumstances though.
Often I’ve just taken what came across misogynistic as a badly implemented form of lensing from the time.
Filtering out euphemism heavily, and not saying he wasn’t, but overall many of his stories for the time were very modern on strong women in books.
I’d instead say that instead of directly labeling him misogynistic, it’s more accurate to say just “asshole of equal opportunity”.
His women were frequently critical to story (not just devices for saving). Gender and sexuality were some of the most absolutely open and not only accepted but outright fought for violently in many cases.
While the picture of what it looked like may be dated, he grumpily would argue for women’s rights in his tales.
I would also say that I base from his fictional writing. If your basis is from another venue then I may be lacking data. I’ve tried to read into rumor and such about overlap of shit with Rand but find much conflicting things and just have given up interest in trying to untie that.
Kiss the girl.
More specifically “Give in to temptation; you never know if it’ll pass your way again.”
If we relax the rules a bit here, most of the “Notebooks of Lazarus Long” apply. Many of Heinlein’s comments held a lot of value and have helped me be happy with who I’ve become in the 36 years since I started reading the words he put on pages.
Enjoy your life whenever you can, and hopefully find someone to enjoy it with. The end comes sooner than you know.
Despite Heinlein’s rampant misogyny, I have definitely enjoyed some of his works. I find the aphorisms of Lazarus Long somewhat apropos given our current circumstances though.
Often I’ve just taken what came across misogynistic as a badly implemented form of lensing from the time.
Filtering out euphemism heavily, and not saying he wasn’t, but overall many of his stories for the time were very modern on strong women in books.
I’d instead say that instead of directly labeling him misogynistic, it’s more accurate to say just “asshole of equal opportunity”.
His women were frequently critical to story (not just devices for saving). Gender and sexuality were some of the most absolutely open and not only accepted but outright fought for violently in many cases.
While the picture of what it looked like may be dated, he grumpily would argue for women’s rights in his tales.
I would also say that I base from his fictional writing. If your basis is from another venue then I may be lacking data. I’ve tried to read into rumor and such about overlap of shit with Rand but find much conflicting things and just have given up interest in trying to untie that.