Feminisms

[faustus]

I've recently been copied into an email correspondence with a writer who claims not to be a feminist. Have you been educated beyond the age of 10? Are you published under a name rather than initials? Do you work other than in a factory, as a teacher, a nurse, a nanny or a mother? Still, her choice, of course. Her life would have been very different without feminism though. I did enjoy that the response to her began Ms---.

And on a related note, an account from a woman who, like Rose Marie in A Very Peculiar Practice, has rejected the patronymic. Curious how such things are now more difficult than they were. I wonder how Peri 6 copes.

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On the other hand, I'm not certain that my name has anything more to do with my identity than does what I do for a living and you know how I feel about the latter.

Of course, there's the question of people taking liberties with my first name, which annoys the hell out of me: if it's not to do with identity why should I care; if it is to do with identity how come other people get to mess with it/impose their own version.

Who knows what I think? The only thing that is clear is that I am avoiding work today.