My last comment was supposed to include a link to an Onion article, “Women Now Empowered By Everything A Woman Does,” but it seems to have been automatically removed. I’ll add the link again here and you can google it if it still does not show up.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/women-now-empowered-by-everything-a-woman-does,1398/

Savita Halappanavar’s situation was one in which abortion wasn’t even considered by her doctors.

if she kept her name instead of changing it, she would still be Ms. Hisname – her husband’s or her father’s. 1. So you see Beyonce Knowles’s last name as her father’s, but Shawn Carter’s and Mathew Knowles’s last names as their own? It’s sexist of you to view men as having a last name and [...]

You chose your choice. You get the good and bad consequences of that decision.

How does doing what’s expected of her, becoming Mrs. Hisname, help matters? It does not subvert what society expects of a married woman; it reinforces it. Are you saying that a marriage is more valued if a woman changes her name?

It’s not subversive for her to call the tour “The Mrs. Carter Show”. It would be subversive for her husband to call his next tour “The Mr. Knowles Show”.

Quinn writes “when the book gets into home life and child care, her advice is not so easy to follow. She is a superwoman, worth hundreds of millions of dollars and by all accounts terrific at her job. She has two children and a husband who shares 50 percent of the housework and child care.” [...]

A man can take his wife’s name in any state, even states that don’t specifically allow it. Common law is that anyone can use any name, as long as there is no intent to defraud. Easiest way is probably to get a new social security card and new passport, then use those to get the [...]

What should the obit editors do? If five men and five women in their town die tomorrow, but the only two with any notable achievements are both men, how should the editor allocate space and coverage? Should they reduce the size of one of the men’s obits and increase the size of the obit of [...]