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• Upon a further reading, you are right. It does come off as blaming Naked_Feminist. This was not my intent, but it does read that way. Thanks for noting it. My apologies.
  (posted to I Put My Ring on My Left Hand)
• You are so right. I tease my husband, saying he is so lucky I don't use those products. I will age gracefully, over time, so he can get used to it. He won't be shocked like the partner of someone
  (posted to Your wife needs to be pretty but you don't!)
• My 2-year-old shocked her father when he said he was going to wipe her hoo-hah during a diaper change and she replied, "It's not a hoo-hah Daddy, its my vulva* and labia!" I was so proud. She's recently asked about
  (posted to Vajayjays and Teetees)
• I too, appear to be a minority on this thread because I took my husbands last name. Just as with the marriage ceremony, there are different ways to look at traditions and to reinvent them to fit with your belief
  (posted to Feminist Crisis?)
• I'm sure the response is "ew" because I am not eloquent when describing my experience in this area - never have been, hopefully someday will be. Plus I wrote "gift" - that was a poor word choice now that I
  (posted to Feminist Crisis?)

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• 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?)

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