How about some more fake feminists signs?

TWW, you have always been there for me. You are way cooler than faceboo... (I had to stop myself because I couldn't bear to call it by its shameful name.)

12/27/2010 4:09:31 PM

facespace?

12/27/2010 4:12:11 PM

Sign #4: You claim to be a feminist on tee-dub, but then post nekkid pics.

12/27/2010 4:13:36 PM

Sign #5: you are president of chapter of a major feminist organization, but only because the conferences are in Key West and it's an excuse to get your party on for free.

12/27/2010 4:17:33 PM

About the name change thing, I don't have a real big stance on it, I just felt like LKB, I wanted to take Ken's last name. I do have to say, if I had done tons of research (ie doctorate) or had multiple times been published I would have kept my name as Amna Cameron.

[Edited on December 27, 2010 at 4:21 PM. Reason : my kids will always be Warners no matter what. Joie ]

12/27/2010 4:21:05 PM

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"You burn your bra in public to get male attention. Or to win a hard nipple contest."

lol, with a shirt on?

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"you are president of chapter of a major feminist organization, but only because the conferences are in Key West and it's an excuse to get your party on for free"

Wow, lame.

12/27/2010 4:30:23 PM

12/27/2010 4:37:31 PM

why so

12/27/2010 4:40:15 PM

The second scenario applies to me. It was an accident.

12/27/2010 4:56:12 PM

oh, well then make sure you fill up on the stone crab claws and make sure that it only happens once.

[Edited on December 27, 2010 at 5:02 PM. Reason : ]

12/27/2010 5:02:15 PM

No, this was in college. We just scammed free drinks off of dudes and then went to a clothing optional bar.

Girl power!

12/27/2010 5:03:43 PM

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"How about some more fake feminists signs?"

You obviously have a sample size of 1, so why don't you just report back the next thing she does that annoys you.

12/27/2010 5:04:45 PM

it's not one person I promise.

this applies to several things that I noticed when I moved to a mostly white, suburbia-type city/college town.

12/27/2010 5:06:52 PM

Haha. Austin does fit that bill. But better to be there than to be in Dallas with the spoiled debutantes.

12/27/2010 5:12:02 PM

even 4 payment of $4k won't get you a big stone at Tiffany's.

I kept my last name. I might change it later, but it is a pain in the butt.

12/27/2010 5:22:31 PM

I got my ring for her at Tiffs,

but it wasn't expensive

12/27/2010 5:26:33 PM

^but was she a real feminist or a fake one?

12/27/2010 5:34:39 PM

I don't know, we never really talk about it.

12/27/2010 5:35:37 PM

I would change my name, but only because I hate my last name. That said, it's annoying to have to change your name. You have to change all of your credit cards, your driver's license, your passport ... a few other things. Definitely not the easiest thing to do.

12/27/2010 5:39:16 PM

I would only change my name for the perfect guy

i mean girl

12/27/2010 5:55:21 PM

Lots of you are really hung up on second-wave feminist shit!

Exhibitionism doesn't have to be at odds with feminism. I think I lot of people just don't recognize it for what it is and try to make it into a female empowerment/disempowerment thing. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.

That said, this thread needs more empowered exhibitionist feminist b00bs.

12/27/2010 6:00:43 PM

Feminism isn't about female empowerment and prolly only the haters think that is the case.

This thread is about women who cry equal rights for women, but then use their gender to give them an advantage over men.

12/27/2010 6:09:59 PM

metricula is right, she SHOULD post her boobs

12/27/2010 6:10:33 PM

I'll probably marry the first girl who gets me a new M3. I'm such a fake misogynist.

[Edited on December 27, 2010 at 6:10 PM. Reason : l]

12/27/2010 6:10:36 PM

Damn, this whole time I thought that Metricula was a dude.

12/27/2010 6:12:16 PM

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"and just because this seems like an appropriate thread: when cody and i get married im not changing my name....and i am NOT a feminist, i just dont feel like going through the trouble."

ironically, it's much more trouble to not change your name

so enjoy all the incorrectly-labeled mail you'll receive once you're married

and BanjoMan, you're being confusing

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"I agree. I think that the greatest achievement of the feminist movement is having the right to choose to be career oriented and assertive. You don't have to be and women aren't forced into it."

So you agree that the greatest achievement of the feminist movement is our ability to choose what we want to do, whether that's stay at home and be a mom (traditionally, being reliant upon a male for an income) or to earn our own living while working. Yet wanting a ring as part of the first scenario, where the woman is financially dependent upon a man (which, I might add, is okay with the man since he obviously wants to marry her), is not okay with you?

I mean, it sounds like you dislike gold diggers, not women who agree to be stay-at-home moms.

12/27/2010 6:39:56 PM

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"ironically, it's much more trouble to not change your name so enjoy all the incorrectly-labeled mail you'll receive once you're married "

Since when is incorrectly-labelled mail a problem? Snail mail is so 20th century.

12/27/2010 6:48:32 PM

It's not. It's just one of the more common things that will happen when she doesn't change her name.

Generally, people will just assume you changed your name when you get married. So maybe you'll have to draw up future paperwork a few times, etc so that your insurance company or bank or whomever gets the names correct. It's not a big deal, it's just inconvenient.

[Edited on December 27, 2010 at 6:52 PM. Reason : I just think it's funny that it's actually more inconvenient to keep it the same]

12/27/2010 6:51:04 PM

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"Yet wanting a ring as part of the first scenario, where the woman is financially dependent upon a man (which, I might add, is okay with the man since he obviously wants to marry her), is not okay with you?"

No problems here, that's legit as I thought that i had said before, but I am sorry if it was confusing.

I was referring to women that act talk like a feminist but then demand to have a huge ring.

12/27/2010 6:52:29 PM

I'm surprised you know that many women who claim to be feminists

a lot of women think "feminist" is a dirty word

I've even met a few women who are actually anti-feminists in ideology

12/27/2010 7:03:48 PM

how can not changing your name be a problem? I have yet to recieve any mail other than wedding cards that didn't have my real name on it.

12/27/2010 7:10:56 PM

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"ironically, it's much more trouble to not change your name so enjoy all the incorrectly-labeled mail you'll receive once you're married"

lol, i think incorrectly labeled mail is pretty low on the priority list of troubles! cody and i chuckled a little bit b/c we get incorrectly labeled mail all the time anyway (mr joie lubbers anyone? )

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" Generally, people will just assume you changed your name when you get married. So maybe you'll have to draw up future paperwork a few times, etc so that your insurance company or bank or whomever gets the names correct. It's not a big deal, it's just inconvenient."

i don't think any important paperwork can "assume" you changed your name and then make the changes themselves. i'm fairly certain you have to go and tell them, fill out paperwork etc..... (i don't know though)

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"been published I would have kept my name as Amna Cameron."

great freaking point! i've been published a couple of times.

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"my kids will always be Warners no matter what."

yup the exact same way. our kids will be little shipmans

[Edited on December 27, 2010 at 7:27 PM. Reason : adssa]

12/27/2010 7:25:32 PM

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"funny thing. a girlfriend of mine changed hers and told me the same thing. she's now divorced and says shes not changing her name back because she doesn't want to have to go through it all again. (i found that really funny)"

sounds like my mom

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"metricula is right, she SHOULD post her boobs"

close enough?

12/27/2010 7:26:49 PM

I've been published, but only for work.

When I publish a novel, I'll take on pen name (just a new last name) because there are too many people named Lucy Williams. It's really not SEO-friendly. But on a similar note, if a guy has a cool, unique last name, I'll definitely take it, as my last name is too common, which is bad for an author.

[Edited on December 27, 2010 at 7:29 PM. Reason : w]

12/27/2010 7:28:38 PM

^yeah mines only work too.

but its pretty cool and something im proud of

12/27/2010 7:29:13 PM

Most def!

You and Cody both have cool, memorable last names for an author. Actually, there prob aren't many people named Joie out there in the first place, which is great for google search.

12/27/2010 7:30:52 PM

lol lucy. you make me

12/27/2010 7:32:43 PM

When it comes to business and art, you have to think of your searchability on google.

Viva L'Internet!

12/27/2010 7:35:41 PM

When it comes to hiding your e-record, it helps to have a very common name

lotsa guys are named James Lewis

12/27/2010 7:45:43 PM

Sometimes it's bad though

I googled James Lewis. He's a convicted pedophile.

12/27/2010 7:54:13 PM

Another James Lewis killed kids with poisoned Tylenol back in 1982, a couple years before I was born.

12/27/2010 7:57:02 PM

and that's why men should change their last names as well

12/27/2010 8:00:26 PM

tbqh, if the woman I end up marrying has much more professional recognition under her birth name, I'd seriously consider changing mine to hers rather than insisting on the other way around, even though this would definitely piss off my father, who wants his only son to carry the family name

12/27/2010 8:02:33 PM

If you do that you deserve to be disowned.

12/27/2010 8:04:35 PM

your father will live

it's more important to have a good name than to carry on a family legacy that's attached to a tylenol-tampering hoodlum

12/27/2010 8:05:29 PM

feminists are p cool

12/27/2010 8:08:14 PM

surprised I haven't seen hyphenation mentioned. seems rather egalitarian if both parties do it.

12/27/2010 8:29:15 PM

^iop1, b

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"keep your name or take your spouses name. just dont do that retarded hyphen shit."

12/27/2010 8:30:38 PM

yeah, there will bu hyphenating over here.

i guess i could see it in a situation with only the woman and/or man.
but the kids?

it seems like that would get really messy

(ie what if a lubbers-shipman married a cameron-warner and then they wanted to hyphenate their names?... )

12/27/2010 9:44:40 PM

I have an egalitarian yet confusing idea, which sadly will be inapplicable in the case of same-sex marriages: Both spouses keep their original surnames and give the husband's surname to the sons and the wife's surname to the daughters; AFAIK this is only done in the Sikh community, in which all men have the surname Singh and all women have the surname Kaur.

12/27/2010 10:42:16 PM