Did not mean to post twice! My internet is being funky. (posted to Vajayjays and Teetees)
AnotherJenn, I think that is an excellent idea to refer to genitals as "privates" in public. I am the eldest of five, and my youngest brother is adopted. He is 6 now, and I've had to teach some social stories (posted to Vajayjays and Teetees)
Perhaps if you researched the reasons you'll understand that for a very long time (and still today in many places) marriage was a business deal between families. When a woman got married all of her rights and all of her (posted to Feminist Crisis?)
I suppose the people I associate with have more tact than most because no one, not one person, has ever asked me why I chose to keep my name. (posted to Feminist Crisis?)
I get all that history stuff. But it seems to be about marriage in general rather than about name changing. (posted to Feminist Crisis?)
My mom called it my vagina or privates, and my tush. I of course called the entire area my china, as did most of my friends. I really thought that's what it was called, because it was on the opposite (posted to Vajayjays and Teetees)
I don't get how changing your name = consenting to being someone's property anymore than dressing provocatively is consent to rape. The logic behind both are equally absurd regardles sof what history or in the case of the later statistics (posted to Feminist Crisis?)