Olivia Plath Defends Her Decision to Keep the Last Name Plath Post Split from Ethan

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00:00I think that, you know, my last name being Plath, it's been that way for my entire adult life.

00:04I got married as kind of a sheltered kid and changed my name at that time. There's no reason

00:09why I would go back to my maiden name. I'm not that girl anymore. I don't feel a need to change

00:15my name right now. Like, this is my name. Everything I've done as an adult has been in

00:19this name. And also there's like a staunch feminist part of me that is very against the

00:24idea of last names belonging to men. It's an assimilation of letters that we use to identify

00:32people. And like, who cares if it's my name? Again, it's not harming or hurting anyone else.

00:37It used to get to me a lot when I was a lot younger. And I think now hearing so many opinions

00:43for so many years, I've started to tune it out. There are times people say something and I just

00:48can't let it go. And I'll be like, oh no, that's not right. Literally yesterday, someone sent me a

00:54DM about something like, you never should have done this. And I was like, that's literally not

00:57what happened. And I got like a little like response. And she was like, wow, you look like

01:02you get offended easily. And I was like, hmm, all right, we'll take a step away. I don't need to be

01:07engaging in this today. Yeah, I think it used to get to me more than it does now. I've just kind

01:12of accepted that everyone's going to have an opinion. And sometimes if I see a lot of opinions

01:19that are on the same page of like something I shouldn't have done, it can cause me to be like,

01:23was that okay? Or was it not? And there've been things that I've come to learn that like,

01:27I didn't handle something the best way because of those opinions. But at the end of the day,

01:30it is people that don't know me. They don't really know the full story. And I'd rather listen

01:35to people that know me and love me. I think for a long time, I have felt pressure to exist on social

01:40media as a perfectly well-adjusted, perfectly well-educated, like act your own age kind of

01:46thing. And I'm starting to realize that I grew up in a cult and I grew up in a very restrictive

01:52lifestyle. And there are so many people that are coming out of similar lifestyles.

01:56And there are things that are new for us that are different for us that we're going to see

01:59things a different way that we're experiencing life at a different rate than a lot of other

02:03people. And I know that I have felt alone in that. And so part of like talking about different things

02:09like that on social media and my little like hot takes or whatever is like, life is not a one size

02:16fits all. And there are a lot of things that I think we're just too uptight about.

02:23It's not harming anyone. It's not hurting anyone else. And like,

02:26why do we really care what people are doing with their life?

02:29But in that social media, everything's out there. So you get to see a lot of different,

02:32fun, new, creative stuff. And also everything's out there. So there's a lot of people with a

02:35lot of opinions hating on things. And I just think it's not harming anyone else.