Eh not necessarily true, I had a laundry list of shit I would've given in the past but I've grown to not give a fuck about my body in those ways. It's a shell it functions enough to sustain life and I don't feel much otherwise. I keep myself clean and whatnot it's not like a depression thing, just like... I stopped giving a fuck about that side of things.
Also what this anon said is accurate.
I'm confused why you're telling me the legal name change thing because I never implied it or mentioned it.
I just said it was convenient for women to use male pennames in the past because no one wanted to read shit by women and they usually still don't. It's a common practice is all. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
You were talking about women authors as a group, I was too, so I'm unsure what a single example was meant to illustrate anyway.