I think in the real world, he definitely still is. It's just a little strange the way feminist issues tend to get expressed - or not - in his stories. A lot of times, it seems like he builds the very structure of his worlds in such a way as to hold women down... and that's on top of real life issues that do the same, since they're taken as read. You could argue that this makes his female characters twice as heroic just for getting up in the morning, but then you also have the looming specter of the authorial intent that made the world that way in the first place.
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I think in the real world, he definitely still is. It's just a little strange the way feminist issues tend to get expressed - or not - in his stories. A lot of times, it seems like he builds the very structure of his worlds in such a way as to hold women down... and that's on top of real life issues that do the same, since they're taken as read. You could argue that this makes his female characters twice as heroic just for getting up in the morning, but then you also have the looming specter of the authorial intent that made the world that way in the first place.
Yeah, it's a little weird.