Fact: Men who take their wife's last name have no need to post on the postnuptial shut off thread.
You need to add specifics in there to make it believable. Like - "In a 2008 survey it was found that men who took their wife's last name reported having sex on average 3.2 times per week while those who had their wives take their last name reported an average of 1.3."
I have posted on post-nup shut-off, but just to offer a counter point.
My wife (whose name I took, you will recall) and I have been married for 15 years and have several children together--and we still, uh, freak with frequency (indeed, I expect to be lovin' the lovin' in about half an hour...).
Is it because we are the kind of ppl that don't worry about, e.g., names? I dunno.
Nor do we fight about money or politics, and we mostly agree on the raising of the children (with some fairly stereotypical gender-based risk tolerances).
Maybe it's all of a piece that we are not too too wrapped up in letting other ppl tell us how we are supposed to live or think (I am referring to some of the surprised/outraged comments above that nay-say men changing their names).
Or maybe it's all coincidence. As I said: I dunno.
I’m about to marry and my wife will be taking my last name. Why? Because that’s the kind of thing a woman worthy of marriage does. Traditions are cast overboard at our peril. I love to see the r^2 for divorce and people that take the woman’s name. Also I have a kicka$$ last name.
Should these individuals be considered male or 'progressive'? I always got the feeling that they were effeminate, but wanted to know what others thought.
Society was based on wives having their husbands name and children their fathers.
Imagine being such a snowflake that you get triggered by someone else's name.
I’m about to marry and my wife will be taking my last name. Why? Because that’s the kind of thing a woman worthy of marriage does.
A woman worthy of marriage is loyal, intelligent, attractive, fit to be a mom, fun, and moral. Whether or not she takes your last name is only an important measure of worth if you are an insecure control freak.
A pretty decent (by national standard) distance runner Jonas Leandersson took his wifes surname (Glans). So now he is Jonas Glans which makes you think he is related to the Swedish legend runner Dan Glans.
An observation that I’m sharing is that many/most women who meet those criteria also will change their names, because they respect the last 3 million years of development. Most traditions exist (like name conventions) for reasons beyond what shows up on the Wikipedia page or what your leftist professors taught you. Humans are complex creatures but most of our ‘wiring’ dates back to when we weren’t so advanced.
The Medical Journal and Urology Times, provide results of research showing that each generation, has a lower testosterone level than the previous. Can this be the reason that today's male 15-30 Y.O.'s are so feminine?
What will this world look like in 30 years? 50 years?
Another reason I'm damn glad I grew up when I did.
My Uncle took his wife's name when they married. He was about as old school as they came so I don't think this is emasculating or HOMO or anything other derogatory thing this community might say.
Of course his name was Elton Davis and hers was Elaine Davis so perhaps taking her name wasn't that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things but honestly don't you inches have something better to worry about?
An observation that I’m sharing is that many/most women who meet those criteria also will change their names, because they respect the last 3 million years of development. Most traditions exist (like name conventions) for reasons beyond what shows up on the Wikipedia page or what your leftist professors taught you. Humans are complex creatures but most of our ‘wiring’ dates back to when we weren’t so advanced.
Sure, traditions are usually around for a reason. Sometimes these are good reasons, sometimes they are bad reasons, and sometimes they're for reasons that made sense in a certain time and place, but may not anymore. Sometimes there are other robust traditions to do something completely different, so I wouldn't call this tradition from English-speaking societies, as widespread as it is, the last word on millions of years of human development.
In Spanish-speaking countries, women don't normally change their names on marriage, and everyone has two surnames. The usual rule is that someone's first surname is their father's first surname, and someone's second surname is their mother's first surname. Some people use only their first surname socially, some use both, and some (including, famously, Pablo Picasso) use only their second surname. Spanish-derived cultures are pretty widespread, just like English-derived ones. What does this say about millions of years of development, alongside the name-changing tradition of English-derived cultures?
This also provides a possible answer to "all those people with hypenated last names, what happens if two of them get married?" There's no existing tradition for this in English-speaking cultures, though. As some who ask that question seem to have in mind, I do recall seeing that some people in the Spanish-speaking world end up with surnames that have accumulated several family names.
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