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5. Taking Names

It's incredible that, after all the progress that women have made, men still expect them to give up their birth names and become "Mrs. Michael Jones," for example, and loose every shred of their identity except their sex. Could there be more fairness in our culture if men were asked to imagine themselves as a "Mr. Michaela Jones"? Hyphenation may not seem graceful to some people, but I think they are really just afraid to abandon the patriarchal tradition, giving up the chance to honor everybody's heritage.
I encountered this video recently and had to share it, a portrait of the dearth of options women have