• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
    19·
    1 year ago

    When the idea is “if you get gang raped, just lie back and enjoy it,” I think that says something about the person.

    • NoRodent@lemmy.world
      19·
      1 year ago
      (×) I don't discuss my colleagues' works or my own. A novelist writes from
many viewpoints; opinions expressed even by a first-person character are not
necessarily those of the author. Fiction is sold as entertainment, not as fact.
(×) Please do not write to me again.
                        Sincerely yours,
                                         Robert A. Heinlein, by ____
      • half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world
        10·
        1 year ago

        It’s okay to think rapey stuff is bad.

        I haven’t read this story, and it is ironic that Heinlein’s list makes a point about the characters viewpoint not being the author’s.

        I’m In that same point he also goes on to say that fiction is entertainment. It’s also okay to like rapey entertainment I guess is the argument your making. Maybe you’d like the sword of truth books. Or some stephen r donaldson.

    • blackbelt352@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      That idea is also a very common thing in Ayn Rand’s writing too, which he’s said he was quite influenced by her writing in an interview in the mid 70s.