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Originally Posted by BenG
Right or wrong, it was a very common attitude in Heinlein's generation and it persists today. We may disagree, but it doesn't put him beyond the pale of society in his time.
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If by "it" you mean the idea that rape is at least partially a woman's fault (I'm refreshing my memory on a very old thread), keep in mind that Heinlein also wrote about a culture where women were very much outnumbered by the men (I think it may have been the Moon is a Harsh Mistress), and if a woman so much as accused a man of looking at her crosseyed, he'd be shoved out the nearest airlock by a lynch mob.
I wouldn't take an isolated statement by a character in SiaSL as characterizing Heinlein's beliefs about rape, especially when it's contradicted by statements in his other work.