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True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made up of 50% women is perceived as being mostly women. A situation that is perfectly equal between men and women is perceived as being biased in favor of women.
And if you don’t believe me, you’ve never been a married woman who kept her family name. I have had students hold that up as proof of my “sexism.”
My own brother told me that he could never marry a woman who kept her name because “everyone would know who ruled that relationship.” Perfect equality – my husband keeps his name and I keep mine – is held as a statement of superiority on my part.

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- Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)

I might have reblogged this already but it’s so good I don’t care.

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Kyriarchy in action.

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Also the study where they had women and men talking in a discussion and when women spoke around 30% of the time, men perceived them as dominating the discussion. They didn’t consider it “equal” until something like 5-10% of women talking.

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Voila. A beautiful example of why fighting for equality becomes a gross exaggeration in the eyes of the oppressors.

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My mom kept her name and it was never really something I noticed or thought about, until I realized that my paternal grandmother has, for the last 40+ years, called her “Mrs. White.”

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It shocks me how offended people get over the idea of a woman wanting to keep her own last name after she gets married. I mean, if you want to change it, yes, go for it, do whatever you want. But why do it just because that’s what people think you have to do? I know women who have done it for that exact reason.

I…may have also gotten into a lot of arguments with people over this.

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