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."
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