Heinlein heroine - Revision history

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	A '''Heinlein heroine''' is a female character who is smart (often smarter than the men around her), competent, and super-attractive, but is ultimately driven by her biological need to bear children and (in the non-YA novels) to have sex with the Heinlein heroes.		A '''Heinlein heroine''' is a female character who is a [[strong female character]]: smart (often smarter than the men around her), competent, strong of will, and super-attractive, but is ultimately driven by her biological need to bear children and (in the non-YA novels) to have sex with the Heinlein heroes.

			When people say "but wasn't [[Robert A. Heinlein]] feminist?" they mean that he created [[strong female character]]s. While this is one aspect of feminist and non-sexist [[characterization]], it neglects other aspects, including the [[plot]] (what happens to the SFCs), other aspects of [[characterization]] (like the SFCs' burning desire to get married and have sex with Heinlein heroes), [[worldbuilding]] (particularly realistic social worldbuilding), and [[psychosocial realism]] (having characters respond realistically to their social settings, including sexism, racism, etc.).

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	A '''Heinlein heroine''' is a female character who is smart (often smarter than the men around her), ~~beautiful~~, super-attractive, but is ultimately driven by her biological need to bear children and (in the non-YA novels) to have sex with the Heinlein heroes.		A '''Heinlein heroine''' is a female character who is smart (often smarter than the men around her), competent, and super-attractive, but is ultimately driven by her biological need to bear children and (in the non-YA novels) to have sex with the Heinlein heroes.

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A '''Heinlein heroine''' is a female character who is smart (often smarter than the men around her), beautiful, super-attractive, but is ultimately driven by her biological need to bear children and (in the non-YA novels) to have sex with the Heinlein heroes.

Examples of Heinlein heroines include:
* [[Podkayne]] of ''[[Podkayne of Mars]]''
* [[Friday]] of ''[[Friday (novel)|Friday]]''

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