Re: (Worst) Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein

Since Heinlein has a mama's boy end up as an eunuch, it's clear he was
using the book as a platform for his views.
But that doesn't mean he was racist; the nature of the future society
was likely just there for the plot.
Instead, it seems to me that the view the book was sermonizing for is
one we've seen in other Heinlein works: extolling the virtues of the
rugged self-reliant individual, of which Farnham in this book is an
example.
What is a product of the time in which the book was written... was
simply that one didn't expect the apparent possible racism to be an
issue.
John Savard