What's in a name?

A while ago, I read about a woman who lost a case to change her family name from Cooperman to Cooperperson. Cooperman, she said, was unfair, chauvinistic and subscribed to the principle of a male dominated society. Cooperperson was more politically correct in the eyes of the self styled feminist. Imagine if she'd won. Then every Ms. Goodman would want to be Goodwoman and refuse to act like one until allowed to call herself so. Ms. Bradman would be Bradwoman, Ms. Hopman would be Hopwoman, while Ms. Henman wouldn't just be Henwoman, but would also claim copyright to the new super heroine by that name. All '-sons' will be replaced by the less gender biased '-issue'. So now one would use band aids from Johnissue and Johnissue, read text books by Harissue and Davidissue, and learn clinical methods by Hutchissue (bless you). To be more universal in the approach, all bars will serve hentails with cocktails, hotdogs will be served with hotbitches and markets will now trade in cows and bears. Little children must know to shed the gender stereotypes, so it shall now be taught that Little Miss Muffet wasn't frightened by the spider, but instead she rolled up her newspaper and whacked him on the head sending him into a period of retrograde amnesia during which he mistook himself for a honeybee. And honeybees, being thoughtful enough to call their females queens (and treat them like that too) while driving the drones out of the hive shall be spared this painful discussion.
Well, what was Miss Cooperman thinking? Will changing all '-man's' to '-person's' really do much for the women who aren't fortunate enough even to have the freedom to be feminists? Will it stop the wolf hooting and eve teasing that is so rampant, it's almost a given? Will it prevent every case of sexual assault from turning into a cheap discussion of a woman's
wardrobe? More importantly, will it prevent sexual assault? It's sad that even today, women's rights remain only a topic of discussion at kitty parties and election campaigns, and efforts are limited to eyewash like reservation, which in my opinion, is like a pair of crutches for a perfectly able person, to tag him handicapped permanently. The change required is much more radical- a change in outlook and perception, a need to uproot from every mind some dark, hardwired misconceptions. Treat her like an individual, for heaven sake, and respect her as one. And if changing a name is going to help, by all means go ahead.