On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:17:08 -0600 "Kestrel"
 writes:
> > and, incidentally, I am taking his name.  That will make me Mrs. 
> Emily
> > Elizabeth Weems Kinzig.  And I am not, mind you, despite what 
> anyone says
> > (and those who say, will receive bloody nubs in return) bowing to 
> the
> > patriarchy or being oppressed by his masculinity or whatnot.  Any
> oppression
> > I experience is my own laziness!
> >
> > emily, mrs. brett, insouciant grunion
> >
> 
> LOL! You go, girl! 
> Personally, the whole point of feminism to me (personally) is that 
> the woman
> be free to do as she pleases -- regardless of what a man, or some 
> other
> woman thinks of it. Trading one form of opression (male) for another 
> (some
> of the more radical feminism) isn't really an advancement. I'm not 
> a
> "wimmin", I haven't been given a "slave" name
because my last name 
> is my
> father's (and hey -- who said he had any choice?! It got handed down 
> to him
> too) and should I marry, I don't consider the ring a receipt for my
> purchase, or taking his name a symbol of my servitude. Some ppl need 
> to get
> a grip, and if anyone is actually giving you flak for it -- I'll 
> hold em
> down while you give them the well earned punch in the nose :)
> 
> Besides, I can't very well get off on radical feminism and then 
> insist the
> man take out the trash and kill the bugs (clearly their duty)
> 
And protect you from drips and pterodactyls (not our pteal one, but the
vicious, woman carrying off type)....
It's in the (unwritten) contract.

Mrs. Jernigan because Jernigan is more fun to sign than Nolan, tygress --
and have been Mrs. Russ almost longer than I was Miss Barb (though I'm
still Miz Barb, in the Southern way of sayin' it).
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