29. What's also good in Friday is he gets at how racism creates self-doubt & insecurity in racialized people. Surprisingly insightful.
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30. A properly intersectional analysis would link Heinlein on race with Heinlein on gender.
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31. With gender, Heinlein was trying to imagine a post-gender, liberated future but it often devolved into patriarchal sex fantasies.
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32. Heinlein's aliens are a prime example of his conflicting anti-racism & xenophobia.
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33. On the one hand, the wise Martians (many books); on other hand slugs of Puppet Masters & Bugs of Starship Troopers.
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34. Heinlein specifically said he intended his books to be critiques of xenophobia. A little lack of self-awareness there, I think.
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36. I read Double Star as Heinlein trying to grapple with and defeat his own xenophobia. One of his best books.
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37. Here's the kicker: post-racial future Heinlein imaged in 1950s is still more progressive than anything Hollywood sci-fi offers in 2014
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