wildestranger: (heteronormativity queergirl/flamewarrior)
wildestranger ([personal profile] wildestranger) wrote2008-05-29 12:55 am

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Newly married Ashlee Simpson is changing her name to Ashlee Wentz in honor of her husband, Fall Out Boy Pete Wentz.

"I think that that's something that a woman should do when they're marrying a man," she tells PEOPLE. "It's a tradition that I think is a great tradition."


Seriously? A great tradition? You mean the tradition which declares that a woman who has been her father's property now becomes her husbands' property, that tradition? The one that says a woman's identity should depend on her husband?

I just lost what little respect I had for Ashlee Simpson. And the fact that Pete Wentz seems to think it's a great idea, something that gratifies him, makes me think a lot less of him as well.

[identity profile] dissident.livejournal.com 2008-05-29 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Of course she's free to do what she wants, but (for me anyway) what really got to me is how she honestly thinks it would be crazy or wrong not to take the husband's last name. Say what now?