Reply #121: This was one of the reasons I got so annoyed

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I really don't care what way someone wants to go, change it or not, but when they vehemently announce (more than once, mind you!) that they will always keep their name, and then go and change it after getting married, it's like, "make up your mind, already!"

What I find reassuring is that we HAVE this choice. It sort of reminds me of being pro-choice or about women in business--today's young women have choices that many of us, or our parents, never had. They take some of these choices for granted, instead of realizing all the pain and bitterness we went through to make them available. I think it's sad, though, that some are foregoing some of these privileges without any thought about the history behind it. Not so much in making their choices, but in trying to suppress those rights for others.