Dang right, screams LIBERAL to me.
Better get your ears checked because that’s not what it should be screaming. Conservative as they come, both of us with the same names we were born with.
It’s a cultural thing. Women in other cultures - Spain, most Latin American countries, and a large number of other places throughout the world - don’t change their last names. And here in the US women often don’t change their last names, not because they are making some kind of feminist statement, but because they are already known by the birth names in their professional sphere. It’s very complicated to redo all of that stuff, and more complicated still to hyphenate or add another last name. So this has nothing to do with elderly bra-burners. Generally, the child still has the father’s last name.
Lucy Stone, a suffragette in Massachusetts spurred the start of the movement for women to retain their birth names when in 1855 she married and refused to use her husband’s name. In doing so, she was denied the right to vote in an 1879 Massachusetts school board election, according to a Marquette Law Review.
Another notable figure in the fight to keep maiden names was Frances Perkins, the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. In 1913, Perkins married Paul Caldwell Wilson, and chose to keep her maiden name for career reasons. In The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, author Kirstin Downey writes that the move spurred resentment from social conservatives, and it became a public news story.
“I suppose I had been somewhat touched by feminist ideas and that one of the reasons that I kept my maiden name,” Perkins once said in an interview. “My whole generation was, I suppose, the first generation that openly and actively asserted – at least some of us did – the separateness of women and their personal independence in the family relationship.
http://time.com/4153417/how-american-women-fought-to-keep-their-maiden-names-after-marriage/
I kept my name but do use my married name too. I did not do it because of any Liberal political viewpoint.
I often wonder about actors. They typically keep their names. Kelly rips did but her kids are consuelos. I wonder if outside the show she goes by his last name. I guess after 20 years, they figured it out. They go to mass every week so there’s that.
Not always. Sometimes it cuz of your profession.