In conclusion: Orwell sucks and has no redeeming qualities and the fact he has an entire society and legions of fans who will leap to defend his honour to this day is yet another stain on all that Britain stands for.

Honk.

...he is writing from the British tradition where his attitudes have been wholly internalised by the misogynistic culture that he was raised in and contributed to.

He had a lot to say about authoritarianism, but mostly to exculpate himself, whilst he never felt he had to justify his sexual politics

1984 is extremely clear its misogynistic portrayal of Julia as a hypocritical woman with no real political awareness or agency; her role in the plot is as a sex object who ultimately dooms the protagonist.

Orwell was not subtle in his opinions of women, they just aren't talked about much because...

This carries over into the fiction he wrote which wasn't just to burnish his own credentials.

A Clergyman's Daughter presents its titular protagonist with a choice between marriage to a rapist who she hates or a return to a life of meaningless drudgery with no alternatives. She chooses the latter.

This is a man who fundamentally did not see women as being people.

'Many girlfriends in Burma' where he was a police officer for the Raj.

Accusations of rape in his past. Accusations which were ruinous to bring against a man as a woman at that time let alone a man who became as respected as he did

He is skilled at using his literary work to launder his reputation, Down and Out excuses his privilege, Burmese Days excuses his colonial past, Homage to Catalonia burnishes his credentials as a Real Revolutionary --

But then you look at how he actually lived his life following that.

Born Eric Arthur Blair (thus 'Eric' in the above quotes), Orwell was very much a product of Empire. He was born into a family of Indian colonisers who made their money through slavery in Jamaica.

This, too, tends to get ignored because he spent some time dossing around Paris doing poverty tourism.