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205Robert A. Heinlein1009374315
"Stu, want you to leave for
Luna City at once. Pick your party. No women—you'll have to walk surface last kilometers" Yep, women can't wa
02009-07-01T06:15:39-07:009602642282009-07-01T06:15:39-07:00
Lenore was allowed to go in and out, fetching coffee&food, or sitting&saying
nothing. Lenore is a sensible fem and knows when to keep quiet
02009-07-01T06:07:23-07:009602392242009-07-01T06:07:23-07:0002009-06-30T14:02:01-07:009574522212009-06-30T14:02:01-07:00
"Life has never been sacred in Africa"
02009-06-30T13:57:17-07:009574312152009-06-30T13:57:17-07:00
His teenage bride dead in the invasion, Man says she was killed by "An explosive bullet hit between her lovely, little-girl breasts"
02009-06-30T13:41:29-07:009573742012009-06-30T13:41:29-07:00
Had trouble getting workers, so hired women to be their sexy bosses. Now lots of workers! Hurrah! Or possibly, YUCK.
02009-06-30T13:18:38-07:009572691832009-06-30T13:18:38-07:00
The "Chinee" ambassador exhibits "bland inscrutability"
02009-06-30T11:32:36-07:009567851542009-06-30T11:32:36-07:00
Just when I was warming to this book, Heinlein goes off on the silliest anti-tax rant I have ever heard.
02009-06-30T11:28:16-07:009567611502009-06-30T11:28:16-07:00
"Women are amazing creatures—sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are."
02009-06-30T08:54:21-07:009560201152009-06-30T08:54:21-07:00
Women on Luna are expected to be sexually active as soon as "nubile" but oh no, there's "no such thing as rape" on Luna.
02009-06-30T08:40:27-07:009559611032009-06-30T08:40:27-07:00
Wyoh tries to help on the farm, but farmers too distracted (she's a GIRL!) to do work; instead she does housework and beauty parlor.
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A full page of math just to show that girls can't do math.
02009-06-30T07:25:56-07:00955606672009-06-30T07:25:56-07:00
Ooh, was missing racial stereotypes. Thanks for filling that void!
02009-06-30T07:03:27-07:00955503502009-06-30T07:03:27-07:00
Oh goodie, now Man and the Professor explain the basics of rebellion to professional revolutionary Wyoh. She pouts! She is confused!
02009-06-30T06:58:22-07:00955481452009-06-30T06:58:22-07:00
aw, Wyoh is disappointed Man didn't take her by force. Oooh, let's make rape jokes for another page! Hilarity!
02009-06-30T06:54:44-07:00955467412009-06-30T06:54:44-07:00
"Man, this is a not-stupid?"
"For a girl, yes."
Hhahahah--go screw yourself, Heinlein.
02009-06-30T06:44:56-07:00955424332009-06-30T06:44:56-07:00
Heinlein: calling a woman "just like a man" is not a compliment. Certainly not when you're comparing her logic to other women's.
02009-06-30T06:35:59-07:00955373312009-06-30T06:35:59-07:00
(on being a host mother):It was the thought of having a baby, a good baby, that hooked me; I stopped feeling that I was a failure as a woman
02009-06-30T06:27:42-07:00955344222009-06-30T06:27:42-07:00
Only 20 pages in and we've already got incest in our utopic group marriage.
02009-06-30T06:25:28-07:00955337202009-06-30T06:25:28-07:00
I'm not used to accepting favors. I'm a Free
Woman."
"Congratulations. I think."
"You're a firm man and I respect that
02009-06-30T06:24:41-07:00955332182009-06-30T06:24:41-07:00
"Wyoming came out--I stopped to give full applause. Just had to—whistles and finger snaps and moans and a scan like mapping radar." UGH.
02009-06-30T06:16:31-07:00955300172009-06-30T06:16:31-07:00
Shorty just tore apart a dozen guards with his bare hands, dying in the process, to get Mann and Wyo out. Shorty is black. They are white.
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Hate Wyoming Knott.
02009-06-30T06:03:53-07:00955247102009-06-30T06:03:53-07:0023falseTue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009Mon Jun 29 12:06:49 -0700 2009Wed Jul 01 13:18:31 -0700 2009 My main problem with this book was not the rampant sexism, racist tropes, unbelievable Loonie society, clunky dialog (as usual, most characters exist soley to have things explained to them) or laughable political ideals. There was no emotion to this book. No Loonie feels oppressed or downtrodden. Nobody lives in fear or repression. The rebellion occurs for completely commercial reasons. When the war is won, everyone cheers, but there's no feeling of relief or achievement.
Spoilers: as soon as the revolution is successful, both the professor and the AI die, leaving Mannie and the Loonies to rule themselves without a manipulative overlord. How coincidentally fortuitous!]]>