wrote:
>
> It's one of those Ellis Island things--my family's last name in the
> old country was Schneider, which means tailor--I come from a long
> line of tailors. When they got off the boat the immigration people
> didn't understand what they were saying so they made up something
and
> said OK your name is Goodman. Or rumor has it that my ancestors got
> into an arguement with the immigration people and someone tried to
> stop it and said don't argue, he's a good man, he's a good man (with
> a Yiddish accent). I still have relatives named Schneider.
>
When I was running around in lesbian-feminist circles in the late
70s/early 80s, there were bunches of women who wanted to throw off the
names connected with their oppressive male ancestors/owners. So they
changed names like "Goodman" to "Goodwomon," or "Anderson"
to "[mother's-first-name]daughter." Or gave themselves place names,
like Judy Chicago.
Ever since then, I've occasionally threatened to rename myself "Denise
Pennsylvania Jeanchild." But I've never quite gotten around to doing
it.
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