And if you don’t believe me, you’ve never been a married woman who kept her family name. I have had students hold that up as proof of my “sexism.”
My own brother told me that he could never marry a woman who kept her name because “everyone would know who ruled that relationship.” Perfect equality – my husband keeps his name and I keep mine – is held as a statement of superiority on my part.”
- Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
I might have reblogged this already but it’s so good I don’t care.
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Kyriarchy in action.
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Also the study where they had women and men talking in a discussion and when women spoke around 30% of the time, men perceived them as dominating the discussion. They didn’t consider it “equal” until something like 5-10% of women talking.
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Voila. A beautiful example of why fighting for equality becomes a gross exaggeration in the eyes of the oppressors.
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My mom kept her name and it was never really something I noticed or thought about, until I realized that my paternal grandmother has, for the last 40+ years, called her “Mrs. White.”
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Hmm. I feel like this is relevant to comics culture somehow.
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I am totally keeping my last name if I decide to do the whole officially married business (although I don’t really see that happening) and whoever doesn’t like it can fuck off.
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