However, if I send you an email in response to a request like this:
I need responses from both men and women on the topic of bikini waxes. Guys: Do you prefer when a woman has her bikini area waxed (Brazilian wax, a topiary wax, etc.) or do you prefer "the natural look"? Or, does it just not matter? Ladies: Do you bikini wax? Why or why not? Is the pain worth the payoff? This is for Lavalife, a leading international dating site with more than 9 million members. This column also runs on MSN Canada.I expect that you will get my name right. I sent it to you in print. It’s not like you can’t just copy and paste it.
While I am tickled pink that Lisa Daily found my insight on bikini waxing to be entertaining and used much of what I sent (score!), and even better, was kind enough to even put the CUSS URL in her piece on body hair for her Lavalife column (very much appreciated!), I am decidedly displeased that I am credited as “Susan Reisman.” That’s just sloppiness. Harumph. Although really, I so am happy that the CUSS URL is in the piece that it is forgiven.
But for future note, please do not call me Susan. Muchas gracias.
*Was American Pie not a shockingly great movie? Forget the sequels. The first was great.
people constantly mispronounce my name. it is maren. mah-ren. it may look like karen, but it is not pronounced the same. what irks me is when i'm on the phone & i say my name. inexplicably, 95% of the people end their calls by mispronouncing my name like karen. blah!
ReplyDeletebut yay for all the work in print you're getting!
Ok Susan. Whatever you say, Susan.
ReplyDeleteBy the way Susan, It's super exciting that CUSS is being spread (ha!). Kudos for Susan!
i hear you... my last name's lydon and people always say 'lyndon'. my parents love to tell telemarketers, "sorry, there's no lyndon at this address." they think they're funny.
ReplyDeletelove your site, btw--found you thru nablopomo. :)
I feel your pain. My name is Jenny. That's it, its not a nickname, my legal name is Jenny. It says it on roll sheets, my social security card, EVRYTHING OFFICIAL. Yet for some reason EVERYONE writes Jennifer when sending me mail, when sending me my degree (YES, the University of California could not figure it out) Funny hows its always the simple names that mystify the masses.
ReplyDeleteMonkeygirl, I knew someone once with the EXACT same problem. Seriously, do we know wach other in real lifE?
ReplyDeleteAnd here I was thinking Suzanne was so obviously not pronounced Susan...guess I'm in the minority.
ReplyDeleteAnd American Pie is a classic;>
It's sort of like when people add an "h" to Sara when responding to emails in which I have signed my name or ask me if I prefer to be called Sally. (Umm, if I prefered to be called Sally, I would have introduced myself that way!). People are stupid and lazy.
ReplyDeleteI guess susan is the default name, because when I say my name is sue, most people call me susan.
ReplyDeletePeople call me Susan too. That sucks.
ReplyDeleteI had the same thing happen yesterday. I got an e-mail, the VERY ADDRESS of which is KARA-Mockula@blahblah... and it began "Dear Karen,"
ReplyDeleteUh, did you not pay attention to what you HAD TO TYPE to get to me?
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to shout. But really. It's not Karen. Neither is it Car-uh, Carol, Carrie, Sara, Tara, Kira, or almost anything else with an R in the middle adn some vowels.
Incidentally, if someone calls and asks for husband by his first name rather than his middle name (which everyone in the entire world calls him), I say they have the wrong number. 'Cause it's GOTTA be a telemarketer.
Well SUZANNE, your comments are great in that article!
ReplyDeleteThough I prefer a clean-shaven woman myself, I like my men much LESS on the metro-sexual side... Sorry for the double standard!
hahahaha!
ReplyDeleteOk - so, my *real* name is Elizabeth. The name everyone calls me is Beth. (Or, Lessa, since I 'took' the psuedonym (...sp?) online. but mostly Beth.) My dad allowed the name Elizabeth on one condition - no one call me Liz. I have grown up hating the name Liz, because I am not a 'Liz' by any stretch of the imagination. Beth, BethAnne, Lil Bit, Lessa, "Hey bitch with the funky hair" - a myriad of names can be acceptable, but NOT LIZ.
Guess what I get called most often by random strangers and sometimes people that know me too because hello, there is no other possibilities.... Guess. Go ahead.
Yup. Liz.
Harumph.
(nothing against other Liz's. I just am NOT a Liz.)
Hey Liz. Having already bitched about my own name. My own brother has a similar problem. His name is Anthony. A wonderful name in my opinion. However, he has NEVER been a Tony. He despises that name and we (no one who knows him has ever called him that) in fact he has always been Anthony or Antho. Yet everyone else in the world wants to make him a Tony. HE will never be a Tony. SO I kinda feel your pain.
ReplyDelete**Super Des we may know one another in real life. You're from Davis right? I went to school there....hmmmm...
Congratulations on the contribution to the Lavalife column. You are so darn versatile. Well, your writing is good anyways..
ReplyDeleteWoohoo, Suzanne. If that is your real name, ha,ha..
He he, I always say, just don't call me late for dinner! It is amazing what kinds of writing one can find on the internet. Smooth or furry is good for me!
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