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jitterbugjive:

silverderp098:

jitterbugjive:

woah wait okay so the tradition of marriage where the wife takes the husband’s name makes no godamn sense. It is only a 100% certainty that the woman is passing her genes down, the father could be someone other than the person she’s married. So it would make sense that the woman’s family name be carried on, as it’s clearly her children

It’s an option for the wife to change her surname if she wants to. She isn’t forced to have her husband’s name.

I didn’t say that. 

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I didn’t say it was law, I said it was a tradition, and the tradition makes no sense. 

Obviously I know couples can choose which last name to keep.

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  1. brownpone said: The tradition makes ‘sense’ considering the historical background. Not the best reasons, though, by todays standards.
  2. brownpone said: Well, it’s a really old tradition. You can decide, though. I think the children can decide too.
  3. nukalegend reblogged this from jitterbugjive and added:
    Well that has to do with dynasties of a family when that actually mattered in government. If the female or male have a...
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  7. thedenofravenpuff said: Some cultures do realize that so it’s indeed the wife’s name the man takes.
  8. faunina said: okay but also consider this: not all societys arrive at the point where they say “well, we clearly know who the mother is, ehat about giving her credit?” eg: in the oresteia when orestes gets put into court for murdering his mother (who had murdered his father) the way he gets out of it is his lawyer saying that “a mother isnt a real parent anyway since she is just the incubation machine for the fathers Live Giving Semen, so matricide isnt half as bad as patricide”
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  11. jitterbugjive reblogged this from silverderp098 and added:
    I didn’t say that. I didn’t say it was law, I said it was a tradition, and the tradition makes no sense. Obviously I...
  12. talus-the-broken reblogged this from jitterbugjive and added:
    That’s actually been explained to me as the point, it’s litteraly “giving the man credit” for the children. There’s...
  13. silverderp098 reblogged this from jitterbugjive and added:
    It’s an option for the wife to change her surname if she wants to. She isn’t forced to have her husband’s name.
  14. theskyrabbit said: something something patriarchal values of ownership and lineage