[ SECRET POST #6531 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6531 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I do find it really interesting that JKR doesn't question why she felt the need to select masculine coded names to get what she considers a fair chance in the published fiction novel market.
She says that it's sexism where men are just generally treated more fairly, that's why feminism and all that.
Yet doesn't see that she actively is promoting the sexism she hates so much by playing into it with her pen names.

[(Anonymous)]

>Yet doesn't see that she actively is promoting the sexism she hates so much by playing into it with her pen names.

I abhor her views on trans issues as much as the next person, but this is a huge reach.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I can see it. She actively chose a male pseudonym for the crime books (despite the biggest name in crime books, Agatha Cristie, being a woman) because she truly believed in her crooked little soul that an out woman couldn't write a successful one. The most famous author in the world at the time, male or female, and she could have done it under her own name, or under a female pseudonym, but she chose to perpetuate the myth that only men can write detective books despite all evidence to the contrary. The most famous woman in the world sent the message that women weren't good enough for that genre.

It may not have been intentional, it probably wasn't, but it was still the message sent. Because Rowling has a shitton of internalized sexism that she refuses to deal with in case it shakes something loose in her.

[(Anonymous)]

Ask George Sand, George Elliot, Louisa May Alcott, etc.