I'm getting married in a month. As you can imagine, things are getting a little hectic in the Barnes household. First of all, I'm not sure I'm even allowed to refer as our pad as "the Barnes household" yet. Samantha is taking my last name...but does that mean I can start referring to us under my surname? Is that a caveman move? Am I preventing her last name from playing out the string in all it's glory?
I guess the other extreme to this is represented by some dudes who are actually taking their wives' last name. Look fellows, I'm not going to get all John Wayne on your masculinity, but when you give up your name, I'm afraid it's a slippery slope. Next to go: the skin-tight, threadbare Wade Boggs tee-shirt you've been hiding from your wife, the Any Given Sunday Doctrine (which reads in part that "the Husband hath been granted dispensation to lounge around the house in a rumpled sweat-suit on any given Sunday where images from the NFL flicker on his television...") and certain rights and privileges as they pertain to your online browsing behavior. Let's just say there's some crazy tracking software on the market these days.
Basically, if you're a guy and give up your last name, you might as well put on a maid outfit, take up needlepoint, and start calling your wife "Madam." Think about it like a game of Risk...now isn't the time to start giving away territory on the domestic front!
Hey, that was interesting,
In my opinion this is what feminists do, yea you lose your last name but you gan a new one...
This has been the case for a long time, why break an honered tradition,
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Posted by: software developers | January 20, 2010 at 08:56 AM