Again... the Mercury Thirteen experiment was a thing eight months before the book hit shelves.
The experiment was flawed, but it was still a thing that happened; it's reasonable to assume that Heinlein knew about it and was influenced by its (flawed) outcome.
Again... the Mercury Thirteen experiment was a thing eight months before the book hit shelves.
The experiment was flawed, but it was still a thing that happened; it's reasonable to assume that Heinlein knew about it and was influenced by its (flawed) outcome.
It was flawed. They started with a much more narrowly vetted initial group than the initial male candidate group.
No, I'm not indulging your point because it's in bad faith and prejudiced by your perspective.
You're taking the least charitable interpretation from a viewpoint sixty years later. The SJWs do that and I don't like them for doing it either.
You hate the communists today so much that you're demonizing the proto-liberals who unwittingly enabled them.