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[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The concept of “deadnaming” and the need to scrub and re-write history is one of the most on-the-nose concepts pulled straight out of George Orwell’s 1984. You want to change your name? Fine. But Caitlin Jenner didn’t win an Olympic gold medal in the men’s Decathalon. Caitlin Jenner posed on the cover of a magazine in lingerie and filmed for a tv news program their first time wearing a women’s bathing suit. Likewise, Elliot Page didn’t come out as a lesbian, complain about homophobia directed at her for being a lesbian, or play a pregnant teenager. Ellen Page did. Elliot Page got a double mastectomy. None of these things make any sense if you erase their history. Is this who they want to be going forward? Fine, if it truly makes them happy (though with Page I’m less convinced about that). But you cannot erase your past. No one can. That’s not a civil right. And it is dangerous to present this as a simple ask when the dangerous consequences are so obvious.

[–]HelloMomo 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The concept of “deadnaming” and the need to scrub and re-write history is one of the most on-the-nose concepts pulled straight out of George Orwell’s 1984.

It brings to mind the photoshopped images in the Soviet Union where people have been deleted