tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380043122999975374.post8847964997653286841..comments2023-05-10T04:34:55.424-04:00Comments on Five Points: what's in a name?Ninahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05655716376185113881noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380043122999975374.post-78166891793885178622008-09-06T09:26:00.000-04:002008-09-06T09:26:00.000-04:00Our ears do have to be trained. We have so absorb...Our ears do have to be trained. We have so absorbed that last names belong to men, not women, that we try to pass off our use of women's first names as a compliment of some sort--an indication of closeness and friendship.<BR/><BR/>Hillary Clinton, for example, ran as "hillary" not as "clinton." Parly to avoid confusion and over-identification with her husband, but partly, I suspect, because her strategists knew that people are uncomfortable identifying women by thier last names only. If they have a male partner with whom they share that name, it's even harder to use it to apply to the female. <BR/><BR/>I still take occassional grief for not sharing a last name with my husband and my son, but I have never regretted holding on to my own name.Ninahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05655716376185113881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3380043122999975374.post-69465195731577861692008-09-05T19:17:00.000-04:002008-09-05T19:17:00.000-04:00Well, I'm not at all in favor of you voting for Jo...Well, I'm not at all in favor of you voting for John McCain, in case you were wondering ;) But I totally support your view of names. Now. Soon enough we'll have the same name again. I even notice that it sounds weird when professors refer to female scholars by their last name only. Then I take myself to task because of COURSE that's how they refer to male scholars. Our ears have to be trained, apparently.Andrea Rusinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07100786820614125551noreply@blogger.com