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2023-10-17 21:12:19 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: C0DA0E1225995F1773D4CDF8D1BD8BB52A242F9478D0896DFDF73F8ED431A17A
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These contrived assertions come from a biography of his wife. The author—not his wife—makes the delusional claim that because some of his fiction contained misogyny* and violence, he must’ve been misogynistic and violent himself. (*not enough female characters in 1984) https://www.amazon.com/Wifedom-Mrs-Orwells-Invisible-Life/dp/0593320689/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=35RNV5X2Z8TKN&keywords=anna+funder&qid=1697480780&sprefix=anna+funder%2Caps%2C71&sr=8-2 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/15/george-orwell-anna-funder-biography-of-eileen-o-shaugnessy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1697399550
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