to consider that starship troopers was literally a product of a fascist society and continues to be consumed by fascists in a fascist society. Stop coping. There is no subtext unless the audience decides there is. The bugs are “bad guys” and the cool “evil” space nazis are the “good guys” (us!) and there’s no Secret Third Factor That Makes This Good. Ask any guy heading off to die overseas right now if they like starship troopers. You won’t because you’re scared to admit that you just like how watching it makes you feel.
The book sucks because it’s cool power armour and frequent lessons in reactionary civics make people think Heinlein was a pretty standard fascist chud and not an incest obsessed libertarian and closeted trans woman.
we could have saved robert beanlein?
We could have made her so much worse babe
I Will Fear No Evil was not written by a cis man
Agreed.There’s stuff in time enough for love that is pretty trans when you get past the incest. Like cloning yourself but swapping the sex.
Yep, incest with hot trans redhead clones was a fairly major thing in that.
Also the whole character of Elizabeth “Libby” Long, canonically the smartest person in Heinlein’s Future History setting.
Oh yeah in number of the beast I forgot that