Bonnie MacEvoy
Jul 30, 2017 · 1 min read

But you ought to hear the men agonize over it when asked to change their name. It is hard for men to understand because they do not live the daily straws that pick away at a woman’s sense of self and respect. It is subtle and it adds up. So we have little battles to win the war of true independence and rights, and names are one of those battles.

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