Why don't feminists want to be women ?

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I think of myself as "feminist Lite"...and I am definitely a woman. But I get really riled up when I am doing family trees and there is NO record, anywhere, of the wife's maiden name. If those MEN who recorded the marriage and who ignored her family on her tombstone were still alive, I would make sure they had their a$$es kicked...but good!

revenant · F

@4meAndyou yes ditto for me. I could never be a traditionalist woman either. That is weird not having a maiden name recorded ! I had never heard of that !

4meAndyou · F

@revenant It's a real thing. The men who recorded their marriages back in the early 1800:'s would write the woman's name as though she was already married: ie MRS Jane Smith. 50 to 100 years later, they would write Jane Merriwether or whatever her maiden name WAS.