{"id":1730225,"date":"2022-11-08T15:17:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T20:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730225"},"modified":"2022-11-08T15:17:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T20:17:45","slug":"it-still-carries-tradition-jennifer-lopez-says-she-was-shocked-after-nyt-op-ed-upset-she-took-ben-afflecks-last-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-still-carries-tradition-jennifer-lopez-says-she-was-shocked-after-nyt-op-ed-upset-she-took-ben-afflecks-last-name\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Still Carries Tradition\u2019: Jennifer Lopez Says She Was Shocked After NYT Op-Ed Upset She Took Ben Affleck\u2019s Last Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fit-still-carries-tradition-jennifer-lopez-says-she-was-shocked-after-nyt-op-ed-upset-she-took-ben-afflecks-last-name%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1730225&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Jennifer Lopez said she was shocked after learning about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/23\/opinion\/jlo-jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck.html\">The New York Times<\/a> op-ed that expressed disappointment when the singer took Ben Affleck\u2019s last name after the two tied the knot at a Las Vegas chapel in July.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jennifer-lopez\">53-year-old<\/a> singer admitted the idea of taking the name of the person you love \u201cstill carries tradition\u201d and was something she didn\u2019t even think about not doing when she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/love-is-patient-twenty-years-patient-jennifer-lopez-goes-all-in-with-ben-affleck-by-changing-her-last-name\">married<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ben-affleck\">50-year-old actor<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/jennifer-lopez-december-cover-2022-interview\">Vogue<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat? Really?\u201d Lopez asked. \u201cPeople are still going to call me Jennifer Lopez. But my legal name will be Mrs. Affleck because we\u2019re joined together. We\u2019re husband and wife. I\u2019m proud of that. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The singer laughed when the interviewer asked if any part of her would want the \u201cGood Will Hunting\u201d star to be Mr. Lopez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo! It\u2019s not traditional,\u201d Lopez explained. \u00a0\u201cIt doesn\u2019t have any romance to it. It feels like it\u2019s a power move, you know what I mean? I\u2019m very much in control of my own life and destiny and feel empowered as a woman and as a person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can understand that people have their feelings about it, and that\u2019s okay, too,\u201d she added. \u201cBut if you want to know how I feel about it, I just feel like it\u2019s romantic. It still carries tradition and romance to me, and maybe I\u2019m just that kind of girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the July NYT op-ed titled, \u201cWhy It Matters That J. Lo Is Now J. Aff,\u201d the writer called the idea of taking a man\u2019s last name \u201ccringe-y,\u201d \u201cpeak patriarchy,\u201d and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Affleck may be surrendering to the power of love with this, her fourth marriage,\u201d the op-ed read. \u201cBut given the cringe-y history behind the practice, a woman taking her husband\u2019s last name feels to me like a submission \u2014 a gesture that doesn\u2019t say \u2018I belong with him\u2019 so much as \u2018I belong to him.\u2019 And at this fraught moment for feminism in America, a woman like the former Jennifer Lopez deciding to change her name feels especially dispiriting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jennifer-lopez-opens-up-about-why-she-was-going-to-quit-hollywood\">Jennifer Lopez Opens Up About Why She Was \u2018Going To Quit\u2019 Hollywood<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Lopez said she was shocked after learning about The New York Times op-ed that expressed disappointment when the singer took Ben Affleck\u2019s last name after the two tied the knot at a Las Vegas chapel in July. 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