Ugh. So much if this! One of my male cousins (late 50s/early 60s)actually played this on FB yesterday:

I’m a man, and I find it utterly depressing. I heard about #metoo just yesterday because two male co-workers were discussing whether or not to add silly sarcastic comments of their own with the hashtag to their social media. I told them they were being innapropriate and only one of them appeared ashamed.

Just find out the total amount of given names and surnames that can be stacked legally and follow it up with roman numeral.

A friend of mine gets this all the time as well, and considering how much it drives me nuts, I can only imagine what she deals with. She is ethnically 100% Korean, but was adopted shortly after birth by an Irish couple who raised her in New Hampshire.

I think we liberals some time navel gave and criticize too much. I totally understand her and I do believe she is doing her part of the job to make it easier for future generations. I have a foreign last name and I could have taken a WASP last name from my husband but I decided not to even though I am fully aware of…

As an ABC (American-born Chinese), I 100% believe it that her name change improved her chances of being chosen for a role. There is still a disturbing amount of racism aimed at Asians in the US.

“Later, spotting a crowd of people, he said “What a crowd!” and “What a turnout!”

Nobody is saying she’s ugly. Or that the outfit sucks. It’s a great outfit. NOT for this occasion. She may be hot, but damn, she lacks fucking common sense and decency.

Texas has just been hit with one natural disaster. They don’t need another.

Why are you just making up bullshit?

I believe it’s in Areyoureallylistening’s asshole.

No.

Yeah, but that wasn’t the question. The question wasn’t, “what’s with the patriarchal naming system?” in which case your answer “it’s to connect fathers to their children” would make sense. And the question DEFINITELY wasn’t “will my white husband bounce if I give my kid my Chinese name?” (in which case your “oh…

Bullshit. If a man wants bounce he will bounce. If he cared so much about giving this kid his last name he would marry her.

Wait, whaaa? If I hadn’t given my children my last name, I could just take off? Where were you with this magical loophole 11 years ago?

Swimmers shaving their body hair doesn’t rob their spouses of the opportunity to have the legacy of their family name carried on. The stakes are not exactly comparable.

Do you really want a guy who would leave over something like that around anyway?

There’s no actual research cited in that article, no numbers or methods to evaluate. And the person who comes closest to saying what you related is an evolutionary biologist, which...is not a great source. Not trying to be a dick, I just genuinely don’t think this is a thing and if it is, and there is research to back…

Ohmygod Brenda what are you even talking about?

If giving the kid the father’s last name is actually a deciding factor in whether the dude abandons his partner and child, then good fucking riddance. There are lots of traditions and cultural attitudes that don’t make any fucking sense in 2017, and this is one of them.