What's good for the goose

Cross posted at Political Arguments.

The name game is, by now, long forgotten, but the NYT Magazine doesn't know it.

My name is Arpard Herschel Fazakas -- or at least it was until last year, when, at age 51, I changed it. I wanted a name that everyone could say and spell on the first try, not to mention one that wasn't awkward and embarrassing for me. I thought my life would become easier as a result.

Having gone through all that, would he expect his wife to change her name?

"I miss Art Fazakas. I miss being Art Fazakas," he writes. "Recently, to my own surprise, I have started to sign my name Faz. . . . My sneaking sense is that Segal is not really me, and that I might indeed want to change my name back. 'Just do it,' my friends say. 'Be proud of Fazakas.' But I hesitate."

"Be proud of Fazakas." Now there's a catch-phrase.