Ettiquette Is A Tool of the Patriarchy
One of my biggest pet peeves involving marriage and married people is the tendency for people to address a couple as “Mr. and Mrs. Husband’s Name”. The very language structure subsumes the feminine and, in that omission, makes it clear that the woman is a lesser being, a mere unmentionable moon orbiting blissfully around planet male. This annoyed me so much that at our wedding I insisted that my father (who performed the wedding) refer to us at the end of the ceremony with the phrase, as either “Allyson and Rusty Haskell” or “Rusty and Allyson Haskell”. I honestly can’t remember which version was used.
I haven’t met this “Mrs. Rusty Haskell” person, but she sure gets a lot of mail at my apartment.
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