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

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9. A lot of RAH was instrumental in shaping my opinions

And a lot of that came from not agreeing with things that he wrote, characters that he created. There's a lot I love in his works, flaws and all. I'd rather see a creator that worked the gamut of types of stories than someone with just one story to tell over and over with the same staid characters.

Heinlein presented a lot of opinions, contradictory ones, that left people assigning his beliefs as being those.

I recently re-read both Time Enough for Love (a big shaping piece for me, being polyamory and all) and Stranger in a Strange Land. Both suffer from the time and culture they come from but it's instructive to go back to that time and look through that lens. Even the weirder stuff like To Sail Beyond the Sunset.

No dustbin for me. That's like junking films from decades ago because they don't line up today. It's in these kinds of works that we'll see more of the truths of the time than in history books.