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An old patriarchal sign of 'ownership' that needs to go away. It should be by choice not custom.

BeCauSe MaN bIg anD StRonG, and You’Re a pANsey If yOu TaKe tHe WoMans LaSt naMe!!!!

My friend hated her father and she really wanted to get rid of that last name. My husband said 'I want us to feel like we are one family'. I thought that was a very good argument so I suggested he take my last name if that was very important to him. Or give me a good argument to take his. He couldn't, hehe, so he did

Because historically,, when women were thought of as objects and not people it was a sign of the husband 'owning' the wife. The father-of-the-bride walking his daughter down the isle seems innocent enough, but it's called 'giving her away' because historically it was thought of as more of and exchange of goods than anything else

Well, my last name was almost wiped out during the Holocaust, and my wife's father abandoned her when she was a child. So she had not particular love for his name. In my own country's tradition, the children get two last names, the mother's and the father's. Usually your name looks something like this: -first name- -middle name- -mother's maiden name- -father's last name- . Then if you're Catholic (I am not), you will also have your baptismal name in common use. This is why latinos have so many names. I wanted to do this with my own kids, but my wife didn't want her father's name to live on, and wasn't interested in using her mom's maiden name either. EDIT: originally my examples used greater-than and less-than symbols, so they were removed by BP.

I view it as symbolic of starting you own family together. But it doesn't have to be the man's name. It could be the woman's name or hyphenate or even choose a new one yourselves. Or don't, everyone is free to make that choice themselves

My surname is literally Warrior (different spelling) I'm not changing that baby. Well, not sure I'm getting married either so🤷‍♀️

My wife wanted mine because it's closer to the beginning of the alphabet 🤷

To start a new life after all the murders. We're required to commit one murder for each year we remain unmarried. Tis an odd tradition, but one passed down through the generations, kept secret from the menfolk.

They may like it more, for one?

Thank you for that comment

Traditioooooon! Tradition!

Transfer of ownership from Father to Husband. In the wedding ceremony - “who gives this woman to this man?”

Tradition, and a holdover from the time when every man was assumed to be in want of a wife and every wife was assumed to be in want of a man. If every man is either married or searching, and every woman was either married or searching, there was no need for special classification for single people. It’s not that she took the husband’s name, but she took a new name to signify starting a new family. And since the name had to come from somewhere, it ended up being from the man’s side just to standardize things. That’s how a lot of patriarchal traditions probably came about, because something needed to be standardized and it was standardized to favor the man just because that was the least confusing. And then over the years the amount of things focused on the man became a problem for women, which is why we get various women’s rights movements. Because it moved from “make the male the default to keep things simple” to “male is the default, so therefore it’s okay to be mean to women”.

Patriarchy & sexism.

Same reason women have to signal their married status with their title, I hate miss/mrs - what business is it of anyone? If it mattered, men would be differentiated by their title too.

They don't like to admit it but, ownership

Because they can, it's crazy that people think that other people can't do what they want. I mean I will be taking my fiancé's last name lol but yeah still crazy.

i think its moreso a cultural thing. i plan on hyphenating my names!