I Call It "Leetsplaining". And I'm Done With It.

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1. In the sixties I was a huge RAH fan... and read everything he wrote

I enjoyed most of his works, FF was not one of the ones I liked even at the time.

However, that being said, I've matured since then and would not read those works the same way today... and recognize the racism and misogyny for what it is... and I remember even as a privileged white boy of 12 reading some of those more extreme passages and cringing even at the time.

He and his works belong in the dustbin of history... but not burned in bonfires.

I was also a huge fan of Ursula Le Guin and other SciFi authors who were not racist or misogynists.

RAH was a libertarian... extreme libertarian. I have rejected that in favor of a more human socialist philosophy.