onesociety2022 8 hours ago

Not only is it strange, it’s obviously very sexist in practice. In majority of the cases, it’s always the woman who changes her last name. The husband gets to keep his. I still find it very strange and shocking that powerful women with successful careers in modern society still keep changing their names after getting married.

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charcircuit 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

By such a definition any tradition related to gender would be sexist. The tradition is that the wife will change her name. This tradition is why it makes up the majority of cases.

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kelnos 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No, any tradition that favors one gender over the other is sexist. Which is absolutely the case with the tradition of women taking their husband's family name when they get married.

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onesociety2022 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not really - this “tradition” as you call it obviously started back in the day when women did not have equal rights in society and only the husband’s lineage mattered.

	▲	meitham 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How do you propose fixing that? Let the kids take both parents last names? In few generations you end with kids having their entire family tree as their last name! It might even make marrying within the tribe attractive again to keep last name single word!

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bigstrat2003 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It is not sexist at all, let alone "obviously very sexist". Don't impute malicious motives to people like that, it's extremely rude.

	▲	krainboltgreene 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Come on man, I think it's safe to say a tradition that favor's men over women is reasonably sexist, especially given the time the tradition established women were property. I don't think Belgium's feelings will get hurt, besides wait until you learn about all the other things that Leopold II did.

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vedmakk 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I changed my name to my wife's name when we got married. Where I live, everyone can choose if they want to keep their name or change it to either ones. So its a free choice.

AND: Hope gmail will rollout this feature asap, so I can FINALLY adjust my email address too.