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Several people responded to this post (the Tumblr version, of course) to agree and thank me for it.

I said:

Thank you very much!

It's struck me for a long time that Austen is just ... there is no tolerance of the slightest whiff of sexual exploitation, so the But As a Man of the Times reasoning just seems to wildly miss a pretty major point.

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