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May. 15th, 2011
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A really, really stupid article on name change, specifically women changing their names after getting married.
It was vaguely interesting until this bit: "Splitting the difference by keeping both names, as many women do, "is a recipe for confusion," one woman writes in an email. She kept her maiden name professionally but uses her married name sometimes outside work. Now, "I never know how to introduce myself," she says. Her driver's license bears one name and her voter registration the other, and she receives summonses for jury duty in both names.
Um... As someone who kept her name, I can say that it's not that difficult unless you make it so. I am not offended and will answer to Mrs. Husband's-Last-Name should I be called that, but, really, all the legal documents and such are in my name. Because, well, that's who I am legally. And if an introduction needs a last name, I use my legal name so as to avoid such idiotic confusion.
*rolls eyes at idiots*
Though to be fair, the (only) other example (on having both names) the article gives is stated clearly and intelligently.
It was vaguely interesting until this bit: "Splitting the difference by keeping both names, as many women do, "is a recipe for confusion," one woman writes in an email. She kept her maiden name professionally but uses her married name sometimes outside work. Now, "I never know how to introduce myself," she says. Her driver's license bears one name and her voter registration the other, and she receives summonses for jury duty in both names.
Um... As someone who kept her name, I can say that it's not that difficult unless you make it so. I am not offended and will answer to Mrs. Husband's-Last-Name should I be called that, but, really, all the legal documents and such are in my name. Because, well, that's who I am legally. And if an introduction needs a last name, I use my legal name so as to avoid such idiotic confusion.
*rolls eyes at idiots*
Though to be fair, the (only) other example (on having both names) the article gives is stated clearly and intelligently.