The problem is not that one can't conceive of a reason, but that one can conceive of more than one reason, and the one that better fits the circumstances is being denied out of ideological antipathy.
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Replying to @vszebr @MjrKusanagi
Why is that the important thing? Why not just respect their wishes either way?
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Replying to @vszebr @arthur_affect
Surely respecting these people would involve addressing and referring to them in the terms they consistently chose to apply to themselves. But then the ideological antipathy creeps in, and you can't let that happen anymore. Hmm.
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Replying to @vszebr @arthur_affect
Pretty sure when you scrub their name off their work because you've presumed to know better than they did what name they wanted on the cover, you surrender the moral position of respecting them. I wouldn't respect you if I were asserting my presumptions about you, would I?
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Replying to @vszebr @MjrKusanagi
This is a vast oversimplification Women weren't denied access to writing careers in the 19th century - in fact, women novelists in particular were so common that novels were negatively stereotyped as a feminine art form
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George Eliot in fact makes it pretty clear why she had the pen name when she wrote her scathing essay about "lady novelists" - novels written by women were disdained as clichéd and commercial and she didn't want her work lumped in with them
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That's absolutely a result of societal sexism and internalized misogyny Eliot was expressing the sentiment people on the a Internet now name as "Not Like Other Girls" But it was nonetheless clearly a personal choice and not something she was forced into
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