2. Heinlein had a tendency to make arguments in ways that readers could justifiably conclude he was arguing the opposite of what he intended
10. "Friday" was Heinlein's would-be feminist novel. Opens with heroine getting raped and making a quip about it ("might as well lie back")
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11. Heinlein's intent with "Friday" seems to be to answer his feminist critics (he dedicates book to host of female science fiction writers)
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12. Yet as with "Farnham's Freehold," -- some perversity in Heinlein led him to write female-centric novel that hits all the wrong buttons.
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