Fair enough. I more meant that she was a woman, not writing under a pseudonym, in that time period…
Her actual work may not be all that “progressive” by today’s standards, but she was still a massive outlier for the time…
Like Mary Shelley, or the Bronte sisters, et al…
That’s why liberals today (or whatever we want to call the ones doing the censoring) look up to her so much, rather than anything to do with a) her own written words, or b) whatever her actual beliefs and views on things may have been…
Her actual work may not be all that “progressive” by today’s standards
Her actual work was often satire calling out how pants on head retarded certain cultural expectation were. That's the entire point of 'Pride and Prejudice' and yet there are legion of women who take the book at face value and then wonder why IRL doesn't have rich bachelors walking across fields in the rain to woo them.
I'll have to look that up. I always thought that literature was one of the places where chicks do a pretty good job. The only major chick that wrote under a male synonym that I can think of is George Elliot -- and that was only because her writing was explicitly feminist, and she thought that men wouldn't stand for such whining from a chick.
Fair enough. I more meant that she was a woman, not writing under a pseudonym, in that time period…
Her actual work may not be all that “progressive” by today’s standards, but she was still a massive outlier for the time…
Like Mary Shelley, or the Bronte sisters, et al…
That’s why liberals today (or whatever we want to call the ones doing the censoring) look up to her so much, rather than anything to do with a) her own written words, or b) whatever her actual beliefs and views on things may have been…
Her actual work was often satire calling out how pants on head retarded certain cultural expectation were. That's the entire point of 'Pride and Prejudice' and yet there are legion of women who take the book at face value and then wonder why IRL doesn't have rich bachelors walking across fields in the rain to woo them.
Vis a vis Kipling who, while obviously a great writer, was pretty much “Upper Class British male imperialist” personified…
No wonder they don’t like him, lol…
I'll have to look that up. I always thought that literature was one of the places where chicks do a pretty good job. The only major chick that wrote under a male synonym that I can think of is George Elliot -- and that was only because her writing was explicitly feminist, and she thought that men wouldn't stand for such whining from a chick.