The rule against outing living people is to protect them from harm. Dead people are past harm.
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The NYT wrote an obit of a female rocket scientist that led with how good a cook she was. Feminist twitter skewered it for days.
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But somehow Dr. V and her loved ones are "past harm" from an article that misgendered her and presented her gender as a con.
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I don't like the article, I don't support how it was written. I'm talking about the general point.
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@Beyerstein You are tweeting about outing people right after the article was published. Of course it's connected! @graceishuman
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