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Writer and podcast host Peyton Thomas stirred online backlash over the holiday weekend by claiming that “Little Women” author Louisa May Alcott may have been a transgendered man in a New York Times guest essay.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the Saturday guest-essay, Thomas questioned whether the “mother of young adult literature” could actually have identified as the “father.”<\/p>\n

“She wrote of herself as the \u2018papa\u2019 or \u2018father\u2019 of her young nephews. Her father, Bronson, once called Alcott his \u2018only son.\u2019 In letters to her close friend Alfie Whitman, Alcott called herself \u2018a man of all work\u2019 and \u2018a gentleman at large,\u2019” Thomas wrote. “All this leads me to wonder: Is Alcott best understood as a trans man?”<\/p>\n

The NYT Opinion shared the article, “The word \u2018transgender\u2019 did not exist during the life of \u2018Little Women\u2019 author Louisa May Alcott. But @peytonology asks whether it might be the best word to capture the experience of an author who wrote about having a \u2018boy\u2019s spirit\u2019 and a \u2018man\u2019s soul.\u2019”<\/p>\n

RACHEL LEVINE RIPPED FOR DEMANDING CENSORSHIP OF \u2018MISINFORMATION\u2019 ON \u2018GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE\u2019 FOR KIDS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Several outraged Twitter users condemned the piece as “sexist” for claiming that Alcott could have identified<\/a> as a man simply by not conforming to female traits.<\/p>\n

“Rewriting history to be fanfic for sexual fetishes is like an entire academic and journalistic specialty now,” RealClearInvestigations senior writer Mark Hemingway tweeted.<\/p>\n

“This is so dumb \u2026 and sexist, but mostly dumb,” Townhall.com columnist Scott Morefield commented.<\/p>\n

Pluribus editor Jeryl Bier wrote, “It used to be we admired women who yearned to be all they could be and achieved success in a man’s world that often selfishly and wrongly belittled women and their talents. Now we apparently have to say they thought they were *actually men*?”<\/p>\n

“This piece is so ridiculous because the author knows the answers to the question already (\u2018no\u2019) but prattles on anyway to make a political point about \u2018book banning.\u2019 Silliness,” The Lafayette Co. president Ellen Carmichael tweeted.<\/p>\n

Author Helen Joyce wrote, “\u2019A man\u2019s soul.\u2019 These foul sexists won\u2019t stop until every woman who has ever stepped outside convention is thereby interpreted as a man.”<\/p>\n

POPULAR TECH YOUTUBER RIDICULED FOR DECLARING \u2018MERRY CHRISTMAS!\u2019 \u2018HIGHLY OFFENSIVE\u2019 TO \u2018DEPRESSED\u2019 PEOPLE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas also compared the question of Alcott\u2019s gender to the play “I, Joan,”<\/a> a play about the life and death of St. Joan of Arc that presented the saint as “non-binary” and “gender non-conforming.” However, the outrage appeared to be dismissed since Alcott was “neither the first\u2026nor the most recent” historical figure to have his or her gender identity questioned.<\/p>\n

“Alcott is neither the first historical figure to inspire a debate around identity nor the most recent. Was Einstein autistic, or does the mere suggestion further stigmatize autism? What color was Cleopatra\u2019s skin, and what does the answer mean for modern women of color? Was Ernest Hemingway a raging misogynist or merely an egg? (That is, a transgender woman who never hatched, owing to the strictures of masculinity.) Emotions in these arguments run high. At stake is nothing less than who gets to claim a hero,” Thomas wrote.<\/p>\n

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Thomas concluded, “In the absence of necromancy to settle the question, we must base our understanding of Alcott\u2019s identity on her writing. \u2018I long to be a man,\u2019 she wrote in one journal entry. \u2018I was born with a boy\u2019s nature,\u2019 she said in that letter to Whitman, and \u2018a boy\u2019s spirit\u2019 and \u2018a boy\u2019s wrath.\u2019 As a child, she didn\u2019t \u2018care much for girls\u2019 things.\u2019 Recall that as an adult, just a few years from death, she saw herself as \u2018a man\u2019s soul, put by some freak of nature into a woman\u2019s body.\u2019 Why not take Lou at his word?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/podcaster-mocked-suggesting-little-women-author-transgender-man-rewritting-history <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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