Perversity

'Tell me one thing. I have always wondered why a woman changes her surname to that of her husband's when she gets married.'

'Well, I don't think you would understand it.'

'Well, you know, you are the academic type. You live in the cold impersonal world of your books and journal articles. You types don't get one fundamental thing about life.'

'And what is that one thing?'

'Sacrifice, my dear, sacrifice. You don't understand the meaning of sacrifice. When a woman loves a man, she is willing to make these little sacrifices for his sake. Like changing her surname.'

'Hmm. That's interesting. Would you say that in this case the man loves the woman too?'

'Yes, probably.'

'So why can't he make this sacrifice and change his surname to that of his wife's? Why do women have to make these 'little sacrifices' all the time if not for the reason that they are trained from their childhood to look at the world as a sacrificial Crusade? It is almost as if every woman is out on a mission to declare to other women, 'My sacrifice is greater than yours!''