The first is that 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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Fanfic Symposium: When Worlds Collide  (via bitterbuffalo

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I kept my name when I married. In my culture the woman keeps her last name when she marries. A lot of the males I meet seem to have an issue with that. My husband? Had absolutely no issue with it.

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