What it's like to read 1950s science fiction

[Dara]

Via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:



https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gol...

I laughed pretty hard when I saw this. It's obviously for the lulz but has a nugget of truth to it.

[terpkristin]

Too close to home ;)

[Leesa]

yup! :D

[Iain]

This of course assumes you have a woman in the book!

[Dara]

The bonus panel reads, "In a proper Heinlein novel, she should be excited about it, and possibly naked."

[Sean Lookielook]

No, there would be at least three naked women in a Heinlein novel. And one of them would be either a trained assassin or an alien with psychic powers.

[Ruth (tilltab) Ashworth]

Ouch, that really is too real!

[Trike]

Not seeing the problem.

::: lights pipe in spaceship :::

[Tamahome]

Is that Hugh Hefner?

[Mark]

Someone needs to look at women on-screen in the 50s too. Here's a BBC America listicle for women on recent vintage screens:

http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia...

[Ruth]

it’s funny ‘cause it’s true...
oh dear.