I don't really like that the feminist stance on cis marriage is that women should keep their own surname rather than taking the man's (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Why can't it be something fun like swapping surnames and then creating a portmaneau or blended name for the kids.

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[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

Why's it gotta start with you, rather than retroactively accounting for as far back in your ancestry as you can go?

And how do you do the ordering of all those names?

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

It starts with me because I'm a special boy.

The ordering is alphabetical of course.

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

You don’t have to go back too far before you’re gonna be mixing alphabets and using altered versions of last names.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

Hey wait a minute, doesn't your idea also have this issue? Say currently my name is Al Funky Stuff and I have a child with Lea Johnson Smith, the kid's surnames would be Funky (my patrilineal name) and Smith (my wife's matrilineal name). But my wife's matrilineal name is not actually matrilineal, it's her mom's patrilineal name. So we'd have to go and switch it out for her mom's second surname, which itself is her grandma's patrilineal surname, and so on. So you'd end up having to trace your genealogy regardless of how many surnames a child inherits. Unless I misunderstood your system?