i’m totally okay with the show continuing with only lucille and maeby.

My husband took my name. It made the most sense. My name is objectively better (shorter, easier to spell, more phallic), and I already lost it once in my first marriage and my husband didn’t want me to have to do that again. He gets more praise for it than you would fucking believe. And when people find out he adopted…

Just want to say that I am immensely proud to be taking my wife’s surname. Not because it feels like some progressive thing to do, but because she is a powerhouse of a human being and I would follow the woman into the underworld if that’s where she was driven to go.

But when it actually comes time, it seems that people are just not willing to put up with the social friction.

And men want all the pats on the back for not pressuring their wife to take their name, but the idea of taking her name is never considered for even a second. . .

Good for you for not pressuring your wife to take your name, but isn’t it funny how men with long, hard to spell names never change theirs?

Even among the demographic group of men that do this “more” than highly educated men, the practice is rare enough that any sort of evaluation of how or why it happens could easily just be statistical noise.

Um, it’s more than a little judgemental, I fully recognise that. I wish I felt differently but I just don’t. There are always Reasons but you don’t think it’s funny that those reasons always end with women taking their husbands’ names? Lots of men hate their fathers, but seemingly not enough to result in enough men…

I know there are always Reasons but it’s funny how it always ends up with the woman changing her name to her husband’s. This isn’t meant as a personal attack, I just do think that there are a lot of ways that society and relationships subconsciously influence women’s decisions and push them to stick with the…

It’s not a harmless practice though. If it were, more men would change their names. But they don’t. Which makes it clear that it’s a sexist bullshit tradition that is demeaning to women and makes it clear that a woman’s identity is less valuable than a man’s.

It is such a rare phenomenon that the paper refers to it as a “micropractice.”

When I got married, I took my wife’s last name, and she took mine as a middle name, so that we went from ABC and XYZ to ABCZ and XYCZ, respectively. No hyphens, just two middle names apiece. She didn’t like my last name for being Polish (not that she hates Poles, but that it’s awkward). I pushed for matching names,…

It is hilarious and he was wrong.

People like to pretend beauty privilege isn’t a thing, but it empirically is. Better looking people, including people who use make-up to look good, are generally treated better, get higher raises, and hired more often than those who don’t. The fashion industry, looking the make-up sub-industry is largely apart of that.

Lets stop pretending that women who wear makeup get any kind of real shit thrown on them. women who don’t wear makeup are denied jobs, promotions, and sometimes institutionalized (depressed women are sometimes not released from hospitals until they do their makeup because to not wear makeup is viewed as a symptom)…

I really dislike people talking about misogyny and racism as opposing, even competing forces. Even if it wasn’t overly simplistic, it implies that misogyny and racism are two discrete, non intersecting forces of oppression, and that misogyny therefore only happens to white women. Women of color (like Holtzclaw’s…

I don’t agree, politically, with Merkel on a large slab of issues (I’m not German, but have a half-German family and am in the EU, so I know them pretty well), but we’re in new world now where “Will stand against fascism” is apparently a rare and precious commodity in a world leader.

Germany is pretty much the only country that doesn’t whitewash its history, and makes damn sure children are raised learning everything about its past mistakes so they won’t make them again. Virtually no other country does that.

While we forced Germany to remember what fascism means, we allowed ourselves to forget with a pat on the back.

Similarly, the left dubbed Sarah Palin “Caribou Barbie,” leading to an entire year where I began every other sentence with the qualifier, “don’t make me defend Sarah Palin.”