Yay you! In celebration of your impending doctorate, I humbly offer a naming story:
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No, under this schematic, nobody changes last names when they get married. Everybody has two names for their whole lives.
he "always thought they would have HIS name because they were HIS kids."
That's absolutely fine since that's what you want :) I think the big thing being discussed here is how much people can be ostracized for making a decision that's different than that, especially for their children.
I recently changed my last name, legally. I had been married and took my husband's name. After the divorce, I didn't want to keep it, but I didn't want to return to my somewhat appalling maiden name that reminded me of my somewhat appalling relationship with my family. So I took on a new last name, one I chose…
This one really pisses me off too. It's not my dad's name. It's MY name. I've lived with it for 40 years, had to correct people's spellings/pronunciations of it, filled it out on more paperwork than I could dream of remembering.
A solution that would work if everyone adopted it tomorrow: every kid gets two names, a name from their mother and a name from their father. When those kids have kids, women pass down their mothers' names and men pass their fathers' names.
My husband took my last name when we got married. I told he could do what he wanted but I was keeping my name, and he thought about it and went with my name for personal reasons. So the kids will have my name, obviously.
Yes! This one pisses me off no end. I was born with my surname; so was my father. So how come it's his name for him, but for me it's somehow still 'his' name?
Ultimately, the act of naming a child after yourself as a woman is an act of preserving your own name. But that name is probably your father's name.
I'm pretty sure other religions also capitalize God when using it as a pronoun. It's like the difference between "Dad" and "my dad".
Apparently telling readers what to do is only acceptable if it's not in list form, because Jez does this a lot.
1 word to say to me if you want to get bitch-slapped: Listcicle
This whole site is a constant reprimand.
Some of these serve a really good purpose. For example, "12 Thing You Should Never Say to a Person with a Chronic Health Condition" would be really helpful to the family and friends of someone just diagnosed with a chronic condition. I wouldn't memorize the list just in case I happened to meet someone with a chronic…
Can you imagine being a royal with a fertility issue? It's too heartbreaking to even contemplate.
So, how do we know that they don't often make a mistake and delete the accounts of thin women? Isn't there a selection bias going on here? Due to the viral social justice outrage culture, incidents like this go viral while all the other ones remain unknown. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but it means we can't…
So, I don't know how Instagram does their policing of photos, but I want to throw my 2 cents in here because I've worked in a similar environment.