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Should Marriage Still Involve Changing a Woman’s Name? As a woman, I knew this history of us women being looked at and valued as property. This essay written by Elizabeth Aura McClintock, Ph.D. opens my eyes to how in-depth we were and now look and valued today. McClintock quoted in her essay “Giving Away the Bride" from Michelle Darrisaw, “17 Common Wedding Traditions—And The Shocking History Behind Them” article, expressing the intention of how women were portrayed beneath the convention of coverture. Women are property, exchanged from father to spouse. The desire for women to receive their husband's surname at marriage is in a general sense established in patriarchal marital traditions. McClintock speaks to the exchange of women's subservience from father to spouse, and the oppression of women's characters to those of men. This convention is even more than that significantly heterosexist and excludes same-sex couples. I personally see this view as a “millennial, people born from 1981 to 1996, understand the pressure of being told to get married and have children. And how same-sex couples were not as accepted as it is now. It was always you “meet boy, fall in love then marriage and children”! This essay has me thinking and understanding why my sister did not give her daughters their father’s surname. I follow the patriarchal marriage tradition, but I am not married to my father. My children are boys so why not give them their father’s surname; I am not married. I gave my children their father’s surname, believing that is what I was supposed to do. My sister, on the other hand, faults that her daughter’s last name should be her surname due to our mother giving us her married surname. Our mother’s fault she earned her previous husband’s surname but most importantly, she said that’s who she was now. My mother’s views are the point McClintock reveals about how women were portrayed as property. My mother was subservient from her father to her first husband. She went from her father’s surname to her husbands at the age of seventeen. Now that I read this essay, my mother never changed back to her surname, my grandfather’s surname. McClintock is not implying it is wrong to take your husband’s surname. She is stating that the tradition of “giving away the bride" is significantly heterosexist and excludes same-sex couples. These traditions lead to generational curves where women think they have to marry, and some men see women as property. Not following her husband's surname means maintaining her own identity and independence, and not letting herself get lost in her husband's surname. Work Cited Elizabeth Aura McClintock, "Should Marriage Still Involve Changing a Woman's Name?" Psychology Today, 6 Sept. 2018. Copyright © 2018 Elizabeth Ola McClintock. Used with permission. All rights reserved. Darrisaw, Michelle. 2018 "16 Common Wedding Traditions - And The Shocking History Behind Them." Southern Living. https://www.southernliving.com/weddings/history-wedding-traditions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
SYLVAN BARNET, HUGO BEDAU, JOHN O'HARA “Current Issues and Enduring Questions A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument, with Readings”, Thirteen Edition. Chapter 4. The Reign of Recycling I do utilize my recycling bin but I’m guilty of throwing other items that are not recyclable. Why? I have felt that all trash goes to one place until I meet a man who “straps medal” in his spare time. During the pandemic, after the governor announced we can return outside I got a knock on my door. The man wanted to take my dryer for the parts. Being a curious person, I asked why I hadn’t called the city for them to pick it up, so he was helping me, but I was curious. He told me how he takes it apart and takes certain parts in for cash. Now I am reading John Tierney essay, “The Reign of Recycling” I want to recycle more! In essay, “The Reign of Recycling”, Tierney asked in his essay “are you wasting your time recycling? Are we? I agree we are not wasting our time. We are indeed helping our communities as well as the environment, hints “eco” friendly. Recycling less garbage is disposed of in landfills and burned in incinerators. Where I am living have an impresser dumpster, the instructions state on the side of the dumpster to shut door completely. Once you close it will impress all the trash down and a separate place for the recycled items. This is wasteful, it is helpful to the environment and helping the economy. Tierney stated, “The future for recycling looks even worse. As cities move beyond recycling paper and metals, and into glass, food scraps and assorted plastics, the costs rise sharply while the environmental benefits decline and sometimes vanish. I disagree of decline in the environmental benefits, the pandemic changed the United States and things were scary at one point. The world was at a standstill, recycling will forever be beneficial to the United States. “The Reign of Recycling”, Tierney quoted ‘…one potential benefit of recycling: reduced 20 emissions of greenhouse gases. Its advocates often cite an estimate by the E.P.A. that recycling municipal solid waste in the United States saves the equivalent of 186 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, comparable to removing the emissions of 39 million cars.” So, the United States is not wasting time by recycling! We are changing as the world is changing itself. I will do more to help the community and the environment. No more throwing other items that are not recyclable in the recycling bin. I am buying a new vehicle; I am now considering a “eco” friendly car if it is on budget. Work Cited John Tierney, "Recycling Is Garbage," New York Times, June 30, 1996, nyti.ms/2kgksIS. SYLVAN BARNET, HUGO BEDAU, JOHN O'HARA “Current Issues and Enduring Questions A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument, with Readings”, Thirteen Edition. Chapter 4.
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