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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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[impysh.livejournal.com]

And I was totally going to leave it there, but then I had all these Tragic Thoughts about how Lyn-Z was angry about the erasure of her identity and career as a performer but Ashlee might not have been in the position where she was in control of that before, and the changing of her professional name to Simpson-Wentz is actually her positively creating an identity...

Even so, I can't see using your husband's name as a good professional move. And saying it's omething women 'should' do? Oh dear, Ashlee.