it's bc until modern times women often didn't even have names
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sadydoyle
oooooo. I thought that in books it was like...a wonky translation or something
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Replying to @randomjeweler @sadydoyle
tbf in Chinese your official name was mostly only used for official purposes (and women didn't do official things)
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in daily life you'd call people Father X, First Son X, First Son X's Wife, etc
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History!
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in Gene Yang's Saints a Chinese girl runs off to join a Catholic convent and is overjoyed she gets a first name
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let's mull over that a 19th century Catholic convent was a better place to be a woman for her
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missionary Arthur Smith wrote books abt China that are racist af sure but a lot of his rage abt women was on point
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(I'm not named after him but I could be I guess)
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stuff like when a girl gets old enough you make her sleep outside bc she's not really a member of your family
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she's a member of her future husband's family
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