The idea of "claiming" people after their death and recruiting them into your army is gross -- possibly inevitable, given how posterity works, but should always give one pause Trans people just happen to feel the pain of being "buried under the wrong name" particularly sharplyhttps://twitter.com/seelight/status/1294158708092604417 …
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Yeah you can be inspired by George Eliot's example and apply the narrative of her life to yours all you want Just know you're crossing a line when you start making shit up about her motivations and desires to turn her into a feminist or make her match some other modern value set
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I mean you don't have to *like* what her beliefs probably were At least at one point in her life she clearly had a lot of assholish contempt for "women writers" as a class and desperately wanted to separate herself from them You are free to judge her negatively for that
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There's a big difference between judging someone for their beliefs and erasing and rewriting those beliefs The former is always far, far more respectful than the latter
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Like I don't like Bobby Jindal at all and I think the story of how he came to adopt the name "Bobby" vividly demonstrates everything I dislike about the man but I'm not going to call him Piyush all the time just to make a point I'd pretty clearly come off as the asshole
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