A Female Science Fiction Character Written by a Male Writer

(and yes, I've read it ALL, even the rare stuff. Read his first book if you wanna see what he tried to write careful circles around admitting the rest of the time (while he was also working on developing fetishes for redhead, poly and incest casual sex). For Us The Living. Nutter.

Anybody who thinks Heinlein was good at strong female characters should look at their own views. He wrote women that were either indistinguishable from men in their supposed "strong" elements.. or had to "make up for" misogynistic stereotype features by.. acting like his idea of men (rugged indivualist verging on predatory libertarians) when it "mattered."

where the female lead declares 'Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it’s partly her fault'

I've noticed similarly dismissive treatment of rape in Silverberg. You don't have to go far back in time to find a society in which rape is treated as a mild inconvenience (e.g. Heinlein's Friday).
Thank you for the defense, Andrew.

I think it's rude to be so presumptive of the background of our hosts. This is, after all, the same Heinlein who writes a whole lot of sex, nudity, incest, and polygamy into his novels, and for whom Campbell famously commented "Bob can write a better story, with one hand tied behind him, than most people in the field can do with both hands. But Jesus, I wish that son of a gun would take that other hand out of his pocket."
I can see many reasons for not having read Heinlein's oeuvre like I have. It's hard to read "Stranger In A Strange Land" (where the female lead declares 'Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it’s partly her fault') as a strong feminist/gender equality book, for example, and for many making him a hard no when there is so much other great SF out there.
FWIW, I think a movie like "Forbidden Planet" is a better fit for the sketch. Sigourney Weaver's character in Galaxy Quest is an effective critique of the women-as-sex-object in older SF, even though Emma Peel's man-appeal was definitely also highly competent.

So correct Mr Dalke, the author of the review here has obviously never read any Heinlein and has been biased by opinions from people who didn't understand Starship Troopers.