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OT: Rebelious reopening of locked topic 25-Aug-2010 At 9:31:31 AM Hendo

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On 25/08/2010 kieranl wrote:
>And why oh why are women still flocking to change their names when they
>get married? I thought we were starting to get rid of that rubbish 30-odd
>years ago.
>Why do otherwise smart, independent women scrap their public identities
>for the bloke's? It just floors me.
>I'm guessing gay couple won't have that issue when they are finally allowed
>to wed.

I think if you do this you would need to do away with surnames altogether. I assume if both keep their name, then the children (if any) get both (which comes first?), with each generation surname length will be growing exponentially and become ridiculous; 1,2,4,8,16,32,64... . From this point of view, having just one name to represent a family makes practical sense, given it is the tradition to keep the man's name it seems reasonable to just keep doing it.

When people disparage traditions I often wonder if they really think whatever large number of people who partook in it in the past were unhappy because of it, or will it just be those now and in the future? Perhaps happiness is not a good measure of worth and rather use some impossible notion of equality?