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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
I don't understand. Can you give me the background?Not if they lived in Quebec.
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I don't understand. Can you give me the background?Not if they lived in Quebec.
I don't understand. Can you give me the background?
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It's illegal.
If GF had any self respect, I'm sure they didn't make it to year 16.
Why would you say this? Because they are not married according to the Governments definition?
That quote is actually self-demeaning for women. As if they cannot exist in a relationship without being married.
A true equal rights advocate would be proud her staying independent.
If I ever get married a gain, I'll call myself Mr. Certified Insane.According to the article, a woman married in Quebec can't take her husband's name even if she wants to. The article also states that this law was enacted to further equality between men and women (by taking away a woman's right to decide on her married name) The article doesn't say whether a man can take his wife's name.
The article doesn't say whether a man can take his wife's name.
If I ever get married a gain, I'll call myself Mr. Certified Insane.
"Laziness" is to "mental illness" as "obesity" is to "health problem", and they have the same cure.
Not if they lived in Quebec.
According to the article, a woman married in Quebec can't take her husband's name even if she wants to....
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If men, perhaps they are misogynists?Statistics show that marriage, on a population basis, is good for men and bad for women. I have never been able to understand why so many people feel obligated to do it.
According to the article, a woman married in Quebec can't take her husband's name even if she wants to. The article also states that this law was enacted to further equality between men and women (by taking away a woman's right to decide on her married name) The article doesn't say whether a man can take his wife's name.
In royal families, male consorts often adopt their wife's last name. Examples include Prince Philip (UK) who became a Windsor, and Prince Daniel (Sweden) who became a Bernadotte.
And yes the story of Debi Thomas was very sad. And I too am very eager to know the common cure for laziness, mental illness, obesity and whatever that other ailment was.
The Washington Post recently had a similar story about Debi Thomas, former U.S. and world figure skating champion, and Olympic medalist. Graduated from Stanford and went on to become an orthopedic surgeon. Now bankrupt and living in a trailer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...91972c-ce99-11e5-abc9-ea152f0b9561_story.html
Oh no! Debi Thomas was one of my heroines. This is so sad. Clearly she has bipolar disorder.
By 2004, he said, he was unhappy in his job and living on the East Side of Manhattan. When his mother, who was living in Arizona, had a stroke that year, he said, he took a three-month leave of absence, and never went back. Why not? Perhaps, he speculated, the trauma of 9/11 had affected him. And, he said, he had been unable to find a position close to his old rank. “They wanted someone cheap,” he said. “They weren’t going to pay $115,000 for a bench chemist.”
He moved to Brooklyn and took a job with Barnes & Noble in Park Slope that paid about $10 an hour. He also managed to run up $40,000 in credit card debt. How?
“Going out, eating,” he said. “Like I was still making $115,000.”
You completely misunderstood me. As a feminist, I would have little respect for anyone who disrespected and forgot my name, unless of course he had dementia. Being labeled as "the woman" would be my exit ticket from that relationship. I refuse to be any man's chattel. I am a self sufficient single woman. I am damn proud of my name, and even if I were to marry, I would keep it.
I know a woman who was the last of a family that owned a fairly large brewery. She wanted to get married, and her father (who still ran it) said he would consent only if her prospective husband changed his name to hers, in order to keep the family name on it for more generations. Otherwise, he would sell the brewery, which was still quite profitable. The prospective groom agreed, and it has worked out fine.
... I cringe when I see young brides enthusiastically changing their names on marriage. I feel like yelling at them: "There's a 50% chance this won't last! Be your own woman!" ...
But aren't there other cases of temporary amnesia? I seem to recall (if I can trust my own memory!) of a case just recently (maybe on this forum?) - the person was just 'out of it' for a day, couldn't remember much of anything. And then they got over it - no long term affect, apparently.
edit/add: This is what I was thinking of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_global_amnesia
And most of us have the occasional 'brain phart'. Sometimes it is super awkward, so you say something to fill in the gap, like 'little woman', 'the wife', etc. Yes, they sound terrible, but we have probably heard them spoken by a previous generation, so when you draw a blank, you fill in with the first thing that pops in your mind. I think you should have a little pity on the poor guy, he may have been embarrassed by all this. Or, he's a jerk!
A few years ago, we were out to dinner with a group of couples, and DW was sitting at the far end of the table, with all the wives, and the husbands were all on the other end. I was calling out to her to get her attention, and they were all looking at me weird (-er than usual!). Without realizing it, I kept repeating our daughter's name (they rhyme), louder each time, and wondering why she isn't responding. Aaaaawwwwwkkkkk-ward!
-ERD50