We both kept our own names but I think I was actually pleasantly surprised that the question was mostly “are you changing your name?” rather than something like “what’s your new last name going to be?”

My former MIL used to write my name as Mrs. Hisfirstname Hislastname even though I *hadn’t changed my name*. I ended up changing it later because my former husband was still vocally upset six months after the wedding that I didn’t have the same last name as him. In retrospect, I shouldn’t have changed it, and should…

My grandparents were first cousins and so thus had the same last name when they got married. IS MY NAME FROM THE PATRIARCHY OR NOT??? Halp!

On behalf of gay men whose blindness to their own privilege and hyper-awareness of their own marginalization combine to form a potent cocktail of insufferableness, I apologize.

Julia, 49: “It’s just so unfair to demand that someone forsake such an essential part of himself.”

I’m a divorce attorney, and at least half of my male clients will ask me if they can get the judge to require that their ex-wives return to their maiden names. It’s so freaking creepy. (I haven’t had any clients where the husband took the wife’s name).

A) It’s great that you don’t care. But you are not “most men.” Many, many men do care about this, deeply, and even the ones who don’t care about their wife taking their name are a lot less sanguine about the issue when it comes to their children. The quotes in the Thought Catalog piece are ridiculous, but they’re not…

I disappoint my feminist friends when I say that I would change my last name if I liked my husband’s - but the only reason is because I think my maiden name would be an awesome first name for a son.

It makes me really mad too. My mother and I frequently have this fight. I talk about erasing identity, and she looks at me blankly and tells me it “sounds better.” When I did the invitations for my former SIL’s shower, I wrote it the way I wanted it, and mom demanded I change it. I told her to type it herself if she…

Those quotes are awful, but the sad part is, I can think of some people I know who would say those things. Like when my grandmother died,, I suggested we use her maiden name as part of her full name in the obituary and the service( like Grandma MaidenName Married Name) because she was really proud of it and talked…

You’re entitled to rule out taking her last name as long as you would never dream of asking her to take your last name.

I am a registered Democrat who intends to switch to Republican for the Washington caucus next year—-for the purpose of a guerilla-warfare ballot casting for Trump. (assuming he’s not gone by the time WA votes.)

I want to see how far this goes and have faith the answer is not “all the way to the White House”.

This clearly flies in the face of everything that Maxxism stands for. Hell you might as well just go to Lenins & things.

I frequently use semicolons to join related sentences, but I often forget that I can use them for lists too. I really should work on that; it would make my list-writing a lot clearer.

I LOVE that my Facebook page is like 95% happiness and rainbows and the few conservative FB friends I have left are just SILENT. As they should be. If you can’t say something nice, SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT IT.

I’m having a shitty day and you guys made me smile. Stars all around.

YOU TWO

oh yeah, thats it

Because you’re an idiot.

will someone tell me why i smoke these damn things