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Originally Posted by Delvo  One of Heinlein's big few claims to fame was how much he worked against racism, being among the first authors to include sympathizable minorities and minority protagonists, and he didn't just do it once but made a point of doing it repeatedly and explicitly, deliberately and pointedly projecting racism as being very stupid and ignorant. I don't get how your impression could be so thoroughly the opposite of what everyone else considers fact.
When it comes to sex, he's not known for sexism or for working so hard against it; the main Heinleinism on that issue is that he advocated sexual "liberation" and presented various taboo sexual ideas and behaviors out in the open without disdain or condemnation, although not necessarily always particularly positive either. |
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I think the reason is that for a SF writer of his time his stories was very social and political. Those things that are sexism in todays world was totaly different in his time.
I doubt he was one of few who has old fashioned views of women in his time but since he is so famous and wrote so many political,social SF people, he gets diss.
Personally i think his stories are timeless. Some of his issues are still current.