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] shaggydogstail.livejournal.com 2008-05-29 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
Thankee! It is nice to be able to have rational conversation about feminist issues, which rarely seems possible in LJ-land, unfortunately. :)