Margaret Renkl: A woman’s decision to change her name signifies just what feels right to her.
What does a choice like that by one of the most recognizable and influential women in the country, say about our cultural moment? A moment when coordinated attacks on women’s privacy and autonomy extend across the red-state legislatures all the way to the United States Supreme Court?that J. Lo’s name change is yet another troubling reminder of the patriarchy’s inescapable persistence, and God knows those reminders are everywhere.
I leaned hard into that identity then, and I continue to embrace it now, but I no longer believe that a woman’s decision to change her name signifies anything except what feels right to her. Many of the most passionate feminists I know — gay and straight, male and female — share their spouse’s last name. Some of them have hyphenated names. Still others use two names: their own at work, their spouse’s for family life. None of it is remarkable anymore.
In systematically uncovering Trump’s elaborate efforts to subvert an election he knew he had lost, Cheney put her entire professional life on the line. She has been stripped of her leadership position, and she will most likely lose her seat to a primary challenger — merely for defending American democracy and the rule of law at a time when her Republican colleagues are working to subvert both. Reviled by liberals and shunned by conservatives, she carries on anyway.
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