When Jessica Valenti of the Feministing blog announced her engagement
earlier this year, it touched off a firestorm of comments about such an
outspoken feminist entering the instution of marriage: patriarchy,
wearing of white, changing of the name, hyphenating kids' names, father
giving her away, marriage as slavery, heteros marrying when homos
aren't allowed, and so on and so forth.
She responded
to those concerns and announced further wedding plans on Wednesday,
which predictably sparked plenty of scuttlebutt in response in the
comments, on Salon's Broadsheet and elsewhere, where the National Review online broke out the dreaded term "bridezilla." Read More...
