"Arthur Chu" is my legal name, so it doesn't really affect me directly I mean on the other hand the moral right to control one's own identity *does* affect all of us -- I would like to be able to change my name if I wanted -- and *especially* affects womenhttps://twitter.com/Rainbow80870929/status/1294183548224770049 …
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This isn't theoretical I mean we actually know what happened in the case of George Eliot -- she did *not* have the pseudonym because it was impossible to get published as a woman, because she was outed very early in her career and got published a lot anyway
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And yet she *did* continue to use the pseudonym and have a strong emotional attachment to it in the 20 years of it being public knowledge that "George Eliot" was really a woman named Marian Evans Lewes
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There were people in her life who specifically did want to drop the pseudonym so as to better use her as an inspiring example of a "woman writer" and she disliked this and pushed back against it I don't see why she'd react differently to you doing it now
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Yeah you were praising the idea of republishing her work as authored by "Mary Ann Evans" as an act of "reclaiming" She was clearly opposed to this when she was alive
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