Hmm, yes. With Heinlein it seems to me that at some point after Stranger in a Strange Land Heinlein intellectually came to realize that same-sex relationships were just as valid as opposite-sex ones, but never managed to get himself to believe it deep down; thus the lip-service to the ideal even as his later books ignore everyone but the supposed "atavists." And a lot of that is rooted in his sexism, which he embraced all the way to the grave, allowing him to continue his heteronormative conceptions of "complementarity."
But yeah, when everybody in the world except the people actually in the book are supposedly bisexual, it does become painfully clear just how not-over-his-prejudices an author might be. . . .
Sensitivity wasn't something Heinlein had a whole lot of, though.
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Date: 2010-02-10 04:43 pm (UTC)But yeah, when everybody in the world except the people actually in the book are supposedly bisexual, it does become painfully clear just how not-over-his-prejudices an author might be. . . .
Sensitivity wasn't something Heinlein had a whole lot of, though.