I really wish the satire landed with more people. Verhoeven himself publicly expressed frustration with how often people missed the point, even with the actors during the production itself.
Yes, I know it. And I've been argued at, exhaustively, about how "Stranger in a Strange Land" was somehow evidence that Heinlein was more sophisticated, nuanced, and beyond my comprehension than I realized after I said he was a fascist.
A story about the very special person who is the most very special and knows things better than anyone else and has lots of triumphant sexual victories while the weak inferiors are both too strong and too weak for him is very sophisticated, nuanced, and beyond my comprehension and is no way indicative of the fascist sympathies of Heinlein.
Level 3 Heinlein take: Transition could have saved her
Isn't the last third of stranger in a strange land just "imagine if i could telepathically jump into the head of the woman i'm having sex with and she would jump into my man-head, and we'd be having sex but i'd be the woman and she'd be the man, that would be very hot and we'd have world peace"
Hahahha i love it. I'd say "i have to re-read it now" but i have no real desire to re-read that trash even if it gives me ways to dunk on libertarian dorks.
Randroids tend to have very basic impulses that are so basic that they actually trip me up because I overestimate them sometimes: it really does tend to more often than not be "I am the very important and very special main character, just like in these treats."
"Grok" is a concept from a Robert Heinlein novel. This is the most
thing possible.
I always find it hilarious that Paul Verhoeven apparently read about 10 pages of Starship Troopers before throwing it out in disgust
I really wish the satire landed with more people. Verhoeven himself publicly expressed frustration with how often people missed the point, even with the actors during the production itself.
What did he expect? The actors were Americans
King shit
Yes, I know it. And I've been argued at, exhaustively, about how "Stranger in a Strange Land" was somehow evidence that Heinlein was more sophisticated, nuanced, and beyond my comprehension than I realized after I said he was a fascist.
A story about the very special person who is the most very special and knows things better than anyone else and has lots of triumphant sexual victories while the weak inferiors are both too strong and too weak for him is very sophisticated, nuanced, and beyond my comprehension and is no way indicative of the fascist sympathies of Heinlein.
Level 1 Heinlein take: He was very complicated
Level 2 Heinlein take: He was just a fascist
Level 3 Heinlein take: Transition could have saved her
If only there was no such thing as fascist trans people. The concept still baffles me, but they exist.
Isn't the last third of stranger in a strange land just "imagine if i could telepathically jump into the head of the woman i'm having sex with and she would jump into my man-head, and we'd be having sex but i'd be the woman and she'd be the man, that would be very hot and we'd have world peace"
That's in there. Plus, there's I Will Fear No Evil which is literally just a novel length gender transformation fantasy.
Hahahha i love it. I'd say "i have to re-read it now" but i have no real desire to re-read that trash even if it gives me ways to dunk on libertarian dorks.
Randroids tend to have very basic impulses that are so basic that they actually trip me up because I overestimate them sometimes: it really does tend to more often than not be "I am the very important and very special main character, just like in these treats."