sarcasm always wins out in the end

My objection is more to her doing it because she feels this is something that women should do. Your choice to change your name is absolutely your choice, and there are a number of good reasons to do that - I just don't think that being part of a 'great tradition' is one. I'm very keen on the right of any individual to choose how they are called (while I disapprove of Ashlee Simpson's reasons for doing this I would defend her right to do so), but there's a difference between making that choice because you feel that in your individual circumstances this is the best thing for you, and doing so because there's a normative practice that decrees how you should define yourself on gendered terms.

Um. Hope that makes sense?