Re: debian and women? from DWN #10
On 2004-03-26, Number Six penned:
>
> I usually watch "To The Contrary," the show about Women's issues on
> PBS on Fridays. Recently this subject came up, and all these
> journalists / manhattanites talked about how they and all their
> friends had started marriage with hyphenated names and just slowly
> dropped the hyphenated part, just keeping the man's part, because it
> was confusing for the kids, and for simplicity.
>
> I found it primarily fascinating because I love to watch people
> changing their minds. These successful women eventually made their
> way to the what they once didn't like, by their own choice, not being
> compelled.
Yeah, hyphenation irritates me because, taken to its logical extreme, it
can't continue. I thought it would be cool to invent our own last name,
but my s.o. is hyper-aware of the fact that he is the only person of his
generation with his last name *in the entire country*. So actually, his
protestations against changing his last name held more merit than most.
--
monique
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