Amy utterly smashes some feminist idiot who took her husband’s name at marriage and then gets upset when people call her by it.
No, I’m not kidding. Here’s the letter:
Although I’m a staunch feminist, I took my husband’s last name. We regularly get mail to “Mr. and Mrs. John Doe.” Because of my long-standing hatred of this method of address (eliminating the woman’s first name), we deliberately return-addressed our wedding invitations and subsequent holiday cards with “Mr. John and Mrs. Jane Doe,” hoping people would understand our preference. Yet, even friends and family who knew me prior to marriage are writing “Mr. and Mrs. John Doe.” Surely my own loved ones would consider me someone who still has a first name! My husband understands my plight, but postulates that if I’m so bothered, I ought to inform the offenders. I do feel strongly about this (and all matters pertaining to a woman’s right to her own identity), but I’m an extreme introvert who’d rather die than hurt people’s feelings. Should I care less about what others think and tell them they’re hurting me by perpetuating something I find reprehensible?
–Blinding Rage
It’s called common courtesy, you stupid moron. It isn’t a plight, it’s stupidity and you’re full of it.
I think what gets me most is that people are following the most long-standing rules of etiquette and here’s some feminazi just slashing them for it. It’s wrong. She’s wrong. And she deserves to be kicked in the head with steel-tipped boots.
Anyway, Amy’s response contains a TON of great smacks, but here’s my favorite:
Tradition says, and etiquette experts advise, that the correct way to address correspondence to a married woman who took her husband’s name is the way that peeves you most. Just a little something to consider before you come on like the Kim Jong Il of Christmas card feminism.
Yes, you did mail out your personal Magna Carta on how you were to be addressed — communicated as a hint, probably in tiny script, on the upper left corner of envelopes. Sorry, but what kind of person has the time to pore over every piece of mail they get just in case there’s a hidden message in the return address? Probably one whose choice of daily activities is largely limited to chiseling through reinforced concrete with a sharpened toothbrush or sitting on their cot waiting for parole.
CHRISTMAS CARD FEMINISM! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Amy, I love you. Seriously.
I mean that.
Keep up the awesome work!
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