In a message dated 97-11-09 22:55:37 EST, LLoyd McDaniel wrote:
>
> YAAAAAAYYYYYY PAT! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
>
> It's so much easier to bash ol' RAH than to see that he genuinly LIKED
> women and placed them as equally as he could in the matrix of the
> society that he had to sell to..... and face it folks..... those of you
> who have been wondering if they could ever be writers and get paid for
> it.... FIRST you have to SELL the story to an editor who is watching the
> auduence for squirming.......
>
> LLoyd
As the person who started this thread, I'm feeling a little responsible. For
my own part, I was never trying to put down Heinlein. I admitted from the
start that I have not read _Starship Troopers_, although I have read and
liked some of his other work. My point from the start was not so much the
original work, but rather more to do with Hollywood's treatment of it. So
far as I know, it was written in 1950 (I may have the exact year wrong, but
that's close, I think), so I fully expect it to not live up to our current
standards of feminism. However, the movie was made in 1997 Hollywood, so I
didn't think I was too out of line to think it would be given whatever
updating it might need in the process of writing the screen play.
I know I don't speak for everyone, but again, I feel kind of responsible for
this thread, having started it and all.
Barbara Benesch
BJBenesch@aol.com
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