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[wildestranger]

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.

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[reddwarfer.livejournal.com]

UGH. And did you see that story a while ago that proved that a man taking a woman's name is not easy? It took eight months and cost over 700 dollars opposed to twenty bucks and an afternoon.

[wildestranger.livejournal.com]

I didn't see that - sounds most disturbing. I've got a cousin whose husband changed his name to hers (because our family name is dying out) and I don't think that was iddifult for them to do but, of course, they don't live in the US.