Thanks for this - it fills out some of my scant literary knowledge. Though am I alone in finding Wuthering heights a weird disorientating read. I've tried twice and can't get past the first few chapters. Austen I devoured.
The point I wanted to make, though, is that I don't think your diligence, while I appreciate it, will matter much for those who want to drink the kool-aid. The key thing to note is that the gender ideology crowd are bullshitters in the formal Frankfurtian sense- they are not lying because that stance would at least attend to the truth, they don't care about the truth at all.
As someone who has done a lot of such myth busting in various comment forums around biological sex, indigenous gender identities, ahistorical trans histories I am sensing the futility of it all. When people don't care about the truth, cataloguing it seems almost like a pointless esoteric hobby.
But I commend your forum and asserting a strong stance in a captured industry. I know many people are working for the cause of truth and applaud their efforts.
It is to erase women's history and struggles to suggest and promote, if that is what is happening at the Bronte museum, that the Brontes were trans. It's an absolute disgrace, a betrayal and waste of public money. I've come across that suggestion before that George Eliot was trans. You will always get people who are, lets face it, a bit stupid and make a virtue of their ignorance, but these days they seem to be rewarded.
Thanks for this - it fills out some of my scant literary knowledge. Though am I alone in finding Wuthering heights a weird disorientating read. I've tried twice and can't get past the first few chapters. Austen I devoured.
The point I wanted to make, though, is that I don't think your diligence, while I appreciate it, will matter much for those who want to drink the kool-aid. The key thing to note is that the gender ideology crowd are bullshitters in the formal Frankfurtian sense- they are not lying because that stance would at least attend to the truth, they don't care about the truth at all.
As someone who has done a lot of such myth busting in various comment forums around biological sex, indigenous gender identities, ahistorical trans histories I am sensing the futility of it all. When people don't care about the truth, cataloguing it seems almost like a pointless esoteric hobby.
But I commend your forum and asserting a strong stance in a captured industry. I know many people are working for the cause of truth and applaud their efforts.
It is to erase women's history and struggles to suggest and promote, if that is what is happening at the Bronte museum, that the Brontes were trans. It's an absolute disgrace, a betrayal and waste of public money. I've come across that suggestion before that George Eliot was trans. You will always get people who are, lets face it, a bit stupid and make a virtue of their ignorance, but these days they seem to be rewarded.