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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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[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that this is reason number something on the list of why my mother is against the institution of marriage.

The percentage of women marrying who take their husband's name has gone up over the last twenty years, but I think it's because the women who would previously have kept their name simply aren't marrying their partners anymore.

Catherine Deveney, a columnist and professional ranter, wrote a column/rant on how stupid/patricarchal/out-dated/sexist it is that women take their husbands' names. The backlash she got was extraordinary. Men calling talk back and saying "I told my wife she didn't have to take my name when we married" which just proved her point.