‘It Makes No Sense That Married Women Still Change Their Last Names’
11th March 2013
Lefty rag Business Insider serves as an echo chamber for British lefty rag The Guardian recycling the same old ‘feminist’ tropes. (The screen title says ‘Married Men Should Change Their Names’; freedom for women isn’t enough for feminists, men have to be oppressed before they’re happy – if feminists could ever be happy, which seems doubtful.)
Excuse me while I play the cranky feminist for a minute, but I’m disheartened every time I sign into Facebook and see a list of female names I don’t recognize.
And, of course, it’s All About You. The distinguishing characteristic of ‘feminists’ and other proto-fascists appears to be deep anger that the world isn’t Doing Things Their Way. Come on, world! Get with the program!
You got married, congratulations! But why, in 2013, does getting married mean giving up the most basic marker of your identity?
Oh, maybe because their identity is now changing a bit? And they want to indicate that publicly? Next up, she’ll castigate them for getting married at all.
And if family unity is so important, why don’t men ever change their names?
They do, although ‘feminists’ will never admit it. And there are cultures where women don’t take their husbands’ last names, although feminists will never admit that, either.