[beckett]

I kind of guessed anecdotally that married women had dropped the pretention of hyphenated names, but still it's interesting to learn from Dowd that the numbers have dropped so dramatically.

Friedan flat out lied when she talked about marriage as a "comfortable concentration camp." She was lying about her own marriage (she dominated her husband from the gitgo), and she was lying about the real nature of most marriages. Gender complimentarity, and the sex roles that go along with it, have evolved over eons. The deep satisfactions that comprise those "comfortable" roles are, I would say, virtually impossible to eradicate, at least certainly not by a few pea-brained rhetoriticians, Friedan, Jong, Steinhem, MacKinnon, Dworkin, Dowd, et al.

[RJL]

I kind of guessed anecdotally that married women had dropped the pretention of hyphenated names, but still it's interesting to learn from Dowd that the numbers have dropped so dramatically.

It’s funny thinking about MoDo and her type who would laugh derisively at a Jim-Bob, but think it’s the height of sophistication for a woman to have a hyphenated surname.