Your role in your lineage

[Angrist]

Oh by the way, can't girls keep their name in the Americas? Here in the Netherlands a man can decide to adopt his wife's name. Also even when he doesn't do that, I think the kids can take the mother's name.

So there's your solution! Pressure your sister.

[Typhoid]

But I get it. You want to fell like a champion while you do your thing.

I mean, I totally get the joking point you're making. It didn't completely go over my head or anything, But it's not about how many vaginae I can get inside of, or how many different women I can pump out some kids with. I simply don't want to be the end-point of my name. Now, clearly banging a lot of vaginae and trying to produce a lot of children would quell that, but I would argue that if I was promiscuously pumping out kids, they wouldn't have my name anyways - as I'd be an absent father due to the fact I'm too busy trying to impregnate the planet. Plus Mormons are lame. I don't know why you'd want 5 wives. Power to them though, they only seem to be marrying the fat and the ugly ones. I've never really seen a 100% attractive polygamist family. That's okay by me.

Oh by the way, can't girls keep their name in the Americas? Here in the Netherlands a man can decide to adopt his wife's name. Also even when he doesn't do that, I think the kids can take the mother's name.

You bet they can. Although it's an extremely rare thing. (Around here, anyways)I'm basing that on absolutely no factual evidence other than the fact everyone I know who is married doesn't have a hyphenated name. Most people probably don't do it because they get bugged about it all the time. That said there obviously are women who choose to hyphenate instead of solely take the husbands name - but those women are usually the self-proclaimed business-woman-types.

One of my sisters actually was one of those "I'm going to keep my name/hyphenate my husbands name" chicks. But upon getting married she decided to take the husbands name for tradition, but also because if she hyphenated her name she thought she'd seem like an unloving cold bitch (towards her husband) who didn't want to constantly explain why mommy and daddy have different names.


I know a name is a trivial, stupid, traditionalist thing to worry about. I mean, a name can easily be changed, right. You can just head down to your local courthouse, fill out a document, and suddenly you can be 'Eggely Baegalface', or 'Humorous T. Buttsniff' if you want. I just really, really want to carry on my family name.

In related news : *aneurysm*

[Angrist]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

...who didn't want to constantly explain why mommy and daddy have different names.

That's why the guy takes the woman's name!
And as for explanation... carrying on your family's name could prove a very effective one.