Street Prophets: Comments Man Takes Wife's Last Name, Sets Legal Precedent

we also thought about a new name (0 / 0)

We were both quite serious about it, but the combinations resulting from our names were horrendous. I suppose we could have just made one up, but that would be challenging too.

I think it does make the most sense. Someone pointed out to me that a woman making a feminist stand for keeping her own name is actually keeping her father's name (and his father's name, and his father's name). So it's still all part of this patriarchal system.

by Treena on Fri May 09, 2008 at 12:23:21 PM PDT

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- our melange (0 / 0)
  
  would have been 'perks' or 'markins', so no go there.
  
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  by thais on Fri May 09, 2008 at 12:45:39 PM PDT
  
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  picked out an entirely new last name that didn't have anything to do with either of their own names. It was Gesell, the German word for "companion".
  
  My own experience - I kept mine, he kept his, the kids get his. Works for us. Trying to put our names together would have been an awful jumble.
  
  by AnnieJo on Fri May 09, 2008 at 01:41:46 PM PDT
  
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  I chose to take DH's name for just this reason. I liked him more than I liked my dad, so why not? besides, it is easier to pronounce. LOL
  
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  by round peg inna square hole on Fri May 09, 2008 at 09:20:12 PM PDT
  
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