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[Amber]

--- Amy Z <aiz24 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps if there weren't a double standard it would be a different 
> matter.  My enthusiasm for "Mr." and "Ms." stems from my frustration 
> with the many ways our culture sends the signal that marriage changes
> women but leaves men unchanged.  

<snipped lots of interesting observations on how a woman changes when
she marries>

Hm, I've never really thought about this topic seriously before. That's
probably because I'm not married and haven't had to worry about such
things. I have wondered though that if I get married, what am I going
to do about my last name. I love my last name, I would not want to have
to stop using it. So either I would have have to keep my same last name
or hyphenate my last name. The first option might potentially anger my
fiance (in which case, we wouldn't last long) and confuse people who
are used to women changing their last name. So hyphenation seems to be
the best option.

Which leads me to another thought. Why men can't start to change their
last names as well? They could take on the hyphenated name, the same as
women. So John and Sue would both be known as Doe-Smith. Or Smith-Doe
(whatever the preference, dependant on each situation). The only
potential problem I can see with this is really, really long last
names. 

Anyways, that's enough out of me. I've just realized that this post was
mostly nonsense, so go ahead and delete it out of your inbox...

~Amber
(Who's mightily tired of learning J2EE infrastructure and wants to go
home...)


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