I have no respect for anyone who’s angry about this. This is exactly what taxes should be spent on. Not subsidizing corporations and giving bombs to Israel.
centuries of women before me have yearned to taste the freedom i get to experience nowadays by being able to say no to marriage/children and choose my own path with full agency, and i will never take that for granted. they live through me
Women shouldn’t be expected to give up their surnames after marriage. In fact, it makes far more sense for children to carry their mother’s surname.
A father contributes 50% of the genetic material, but 100% of the pregnancy, risk, labour, birth, and early survival of the child comes from the mother’s body. Her health, her blood, her organs, her hormones, her literal life on the line. If anyone’s legacy deserves to be carried forward, it is the person who creates, grows, births, and often raises the child. A husband’s surname isn’t inherently more “family” than a wife’s. It’s just a patriarchal custom that treats men as lineage and women as vessels. We don’t have to keep repeating it.
the lion is the slightest bit concerned that it seems the endgame of technology has been to merge woman with machine, giving man a fantasy of total control, of turning the unknowable feminine into something programmable and obedient