Comments | evilili: serious pet peeve

evilili

serious pet peeve

Dec 05, 2007 19:43

Okay, listen up you primitive screw-heads...I have a serious pet peeve I need to share with all of you. No, not a pet peeve...the term "pet peeve" suggests that it is a little something that kinda ticks you off...this is a gigantic topic of constant irritation...bigger than a pet...I have nicknamed it "Gigantor ( Read more... )

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atillathehung December 6 2007, 00:57:34 UTC

Well, fuck yeah! That is so Mr. and Mrs. Ward Cleaver. Do we still pay dowries? I mean, shit.

Sarah and I also have different last names, and I've had to lecture a few people about that sort of thing.

evilili December 6 2007, 01:11:03 UTC

Yeah, it is frustrating...and an alarming number of people are doing it. I guess its a real eye-opener for me since we only just got married and I'm starting to see it now. And it isn't just older people who are doing it...a friend of mine who is my age just sent a card and did it. It makes me even angrier considering when I was writing out the place cards for our wedding, I made a point of writing each person's first name, and not resorting to the Mr & Mrs. Man's Name thing.

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evilili December 6 2007, 15:35:04 UTC

It wouldn't bother me so much if they just put Mr. & Mrs. N, but to purposely just put Ed's first name, and not mine as if I am some sort of possession, that's just crappy.

herb_lehman December 6 2007, 04:04:30 UTC

I totally agree with you, even though I'm a guy. If I were a married woman, I'd be REALLY pissed at losing my own identity. This is not the 1950s anymore.

evilili December 6 2007, 15:35:56 UTC

Exactly. If its so hard to write my first name, then they should just leave both of our first names out..I'm fine with Mr. and Mrs., I am not, however, fine with being defined as a posession.

templeemc December 6 2007, 08:20:42 UTC

That chaps my wife's ass too.
What's worse is that even though the insurance is primarily in HER name, they still address all the mail to ME. How's that for sexism/lazy-ass gender prioritizing?

evilili December 6 2007, 15:36:58 UTC

Before we got married, people who would call from businesses, or whatever, would refer to Ed with my maiden last name. haha!

templeemc December 6 2007, 15:41:43 UTC

Heehee.
I got that back when we were 'living in sin' too.
Now Harmony and I just know it's a solicitor if they mispronounce our names (unbelievably common from people who don't know us).

evilili December 6 2007, 22:15:41 UTC

We get our name mispronounced also...but its understandable since it is a polish last name with way too many consonants.

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hasty_smurf December 6 2007, 10:49:04 UTC

Oh. Then I suppose giving you guys a Brangelina/TomKat sort of name is out of the question. I was thinking it would be easier just to call you guys Lilied, or Edli-ane.

evilili December 6 2007, 15:37:45 UTC

Hmm...I don't know...I sort of like Edli-Ane...that has a nice ring to it. Lilmond is good too.