But doesn’t that go both ways - if you can create a discernible identity from the name you are assigned at birth, why can’t you create an identity just as strong from a name you choose to adopt later? For a lot of women, especially those who get married younger, they will carry the married name far longer in life than…

But legally they ARE separate - which was my point. What you wish might be nice morally speaking but legally, keep wishing. I can agree with your point, but unfortunately, the law is not going to give you the remedy you would seek in such a case.

You can only consider it “not wrong” if you make no differentiation between deciding based upon things like fact, logic, or objective markers vs. deciding based upon emotion. You could only reach that conclusion if you weight the two equally. I don’t, particularly in matters of economics when human capital is at stake.

But even if a person has their mother’s last name, unless we’re talking about an unbroken chain of that, it’s still a man’s name. So I don’t really get that whole point. And when I say “your name” I don’t mean you don’t have ownership of it. I mean that your name came from your father (or a man further back, as might…

But I never made a determination as to whether it’s right. I was responding to the OP who intimated that the contract was illegal - I was pointing out that it was nothing of the sort due to the voluntary nature of it.

From the company. But when is that never true? Answer me this, honestly - If I held stock in Apple, and I received a dividend payment or a capital gain payment when Apple stock makes money, and if I took that money - which I made off the company - and gave to an anti-abortion organization, would you then take Apple to…

...Except I never said that. The franchise model can put forth just about anything just as long as it doesn’t violate existing labor laws. Title VII prohibits religiously-motivated hiring/firing decisions. However, a franchise agreement is not a hiring decision because it is, by definition, a voluntary contract among…

Um, the snopes article you cited does not say the company donated. It says the founder donated. I was talking about direct company support, which did not occur. The foundation from which the donations originated was not a corporate foundation - it was the private creation of the founder and his family. The boycott put…

No, I was pointing out that the contract, which the OP seemed to suggest was illegal, is legal. There is no illegal conduct in mandating certain things in a voluntary franchise agreement. But nice try.

But should emotion really rule when you’re actively trying to cause actual economic harm to a company (and by extension, it’s employees)?

My issue with the name changing is that a lot of people who oppose it start from the place that “your prior name is your name.” Well, for most women living today, we never had our “own” names. Your birth name is your father’s name, your married name is your husband’s name. The only way to have “your” name would be to…

Tumblr is a mixed bag. A lot of what is on there is genuinely useful. But then you get the stuff that’s kind of insane. There’s whole reddit subs devoted to cataloging the extreme stuff - like TumblrInAction and StormfrontOrSJW. And it’s all real, they’re not making stuff up. Although I do suspect some of it is…

The problem is that it’s a franchise model - the place you interviewed at was independently owned and operated without direct corporate oversight. So your issue would be with the site location manager and not with corporate. That’s how the model works.

The problem is that EVERY company is this way. Do a little digging and every single company you buy from will have something there that you do not like. If that bothers you, better join the Amish.

Nobody should take a stand if they can’t do it in an intelligent and rational manner. That’s a better motto for ya.

Hon, if you’ve been here a while, I’ve been very open about being a mentally ill, former low-income POC in an interracial marriage. I am no stranger to prejudice. What I do oppose is reactionary drivel like this. My status does not eliminate my basic human duties to be rational, informed and well-reasoned. I still…

I agree. There is no perfect company. If you believe in only spending at “true progressive” companies, you will spend very little, I’ve learned. What we can do is think about averages and what we’re comfortable with. I’m a vegetarian, so I rarely enjoy Chick-fil-A (I get the fries when my family goes). But on average,…

I think part of the problem with mainstream, American feminism is that it does suffer from a lack of perspective at times. Sure, let’s talk about the issues that face American women (and more expansively, first world women). But at the same time, let’s not forget that, comparatively, that we are doing really well for…

The problem with what you cite is that you are citing a franchise agreement, which are voluntary contracts. There is no force in them, nor is there any coercion. The article you cite itself concedes that the practice is legal precisely because it is voluntary - it’s a condition of the franchise. It is not my cup of…

Doing progressivism right involves doing it in an intelligent, rational manner.