Man, I haven't flung a book across the room in forever!

[solarbird]

A. E. van Vogt's The Changeling is almost like a parody of sexism, except for the part where it's not!

Everybody who feels like criticising Heinlein for that should probably breeze through the first 20 pages or so of this thing to see what some contemporaries were writing. Or just, I dunno, punch yourself in the face a few times. Either would work.

I mean, damn.

(Caviat: I could only read 20 pages. Then I managed to skim about 20 more before t3h fl1ng. Maybe it was sekrit parody. But I'm pretty sure not.)

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

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She was looking for a group marriage, and I don't seem to recall the 'artificial' person (her genes were engineered) being an issue in that, because I don't think she even knew it at the time of her entering that marriage. Which really disovled for other reasons, that was just what they threw in her face if I recall correctly. I think they were more upset with her inability to be cowed and be the type of wife as described above.

As for the rape thing, remember he had been ordered to. And I've seen people forgive far worse sins

[avram]

Aren’t there lots of references to her being a “creche baby” (“My mother was a test tube, my father was a knife”), even from pretty early on?