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50. I am like you, Robert is responsible for my progressive views.

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 11:59 AM

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I credit him with my being a feminist. Of course it helps that my Mom was a mathematician/scientific programer. I mean with a woman like that in your life how could you not know that women are the intellectual equals sometimes surpassing us men.

Oh, she had stacks and stacks of SciFI books and magazines collected from her youth.

In this current time of political danger I am reminded of “Revolt in 2100.” One of the weapons used by the liberators was an artful use of the media. They would write articles that were flattering to the regime on the surface but made care use of words and phases that had a negative index.

I too have read everything Heinlein wrote.

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