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eru
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Pixels don’t care
Nitpick: `J.K. Rowling' might be obscuring gender, but `George Eliot' isn't just obfuscation.
robotresearcher
on Jan 29, 2013
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Yes it is. Mary Ann Eliot using George as a pen name obscured her gender. She didn't claim to be a man: she hid the fact that she wasn't. George isn't a uniquely masculine name and was more frequent for women in the past than it is now.
http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/George
eru
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