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Originally Posted by TTBRAHWTMG

I have a few I've been chewing on that I'll put out there too:

1. By today’s standards, I would have to consider him sexist. But for his generation and for 1951 when this was written, I thought his overall views were on the progressive side. While he may have had a sexist view on the roles of men and women, he often portrays women as capable and wise, and by no means the weaker sex. I believe there were 2 or 3 spanking references, but that may be more of a Heinlein fetish than a sexist view.

2. I’ll confess, I don’t recall what the “life-boat rules” are. As for the one boss view, I sympathize with it, but it’s somewhat simplistic.

3. The nudity views come across as trite today, but they were somewhat racy for 1951. I was more startled that his treatment of recreational drugs wasn’t edited out. I suspect it would have been cut a few years later and then amplified more in the 60s.