Portia de Rossi Takes Her Hus – , Er, Wife’s, Name

by Donald Douglas | August 10, 2010 8:09 pm

I’m missing something. Either that, or Portia de Rossi’s gone badly off the radical feminist reservation[1]:

If you take your husband’s name, you must be dependent and incompetent. If you don’t, of course, you’re a ball-busting feminist – or that even more pitiable creature, someone without a husband at all. And, in most cases, you still have a name that came down to you patrilineally anyway. Luckily, there is one woman who’s thrown off the chains of the nomenclature patriarchy and received only praise for it. I speak, of course, of Lady Gaga.

Sheesh.

Gaga’s an open-borders extremist so what does she know? Anyway, the screencap’s to The Daily Caller[2], which links to The Daily Mail, “Portia de Rossi to become Mrs DeGeneres as she takes Ellen’s name[3].”

These two make one high-profile Prop 8 couple, dontcha know? (They were married August 2008, months before the November election, in Beverly Hills). But I’m wondering if this is some statement on the consolidation of the post-feminist world. Things do change[4]:

Taking your husband’s surname, traditionally, makes you an auxiliary, an adjunct, the cute female sidekick, a spinoff, a derivative, Mrs. Him. But for some women now, it’s an assumption, rather than a loss, of power — shared power. “Instead of feeling like I ‘belong’ to my husband now that I have his last name, I feel like we are on equal footing, says Amy Owings, 34, a executive assistant in Overland Park, Kan. “We are both Owings, so now I claim him as much as he claims me.”

Still, I’m out of the loop on lesbian culture. Is it a pathbreaking thing for gay women to adopt the dominant cultural identification of the patriarchical Mr. and Mrs. nomenclature? No doubt Catherine MacKinnon[5]‘s steaming over this: “Feminism stresses the indistinguishability of prostitution, marriage, and sexual harassment[6].”

RELATED: “Portia de Rossi: A Gay Staunch Feminist[7].”

Cross-posted from American Power[8].

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