I don't have anything to add to the wonderful suggestions mentioned above. I just want to commend you on your courage. Taking up this issue, particularly on a college campus, takes a lot of strength. Well done! Good luck - (posted to The Rape Problem)
I think you're right about the question of responsibility and how women are collectively made to fear our environment and, as a result, to protect ourselves from any possible threat. Again, as you mention, this goes back to victims being (posted to Too much TV)
I really appreciate this post. It's thoughtful and engaging and identifies some really interesting issues regarding language and boundary issues. Your approach to Dworkin is not as I remember that text either, so I too will need to reread it! (posted to Boundaries)
Thanks for posting this! I think you're absolutely right about how language is phrased/distorted to give mothers power concerning the negative (rarely the positive) impact they are said to have on their children. [The ongoing discussions about pregnant mothers getting (posted to It's funny you should ask)
I didn't change my name when I got married. It wasn't really a decision; I never seriously considered taking my husband's name. We now have two young children who have their father's last name as the result of (very nearly) (posted to Feminist Crisis?)
Almost half of the children in this country are born to unwed parents, so its almost unusual for kids to have the same last names as both of their parents or as their siblings in that case. Between unmarried couples, (posted to Feminist Crisis?)
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?)
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?)
