Okay, this really got my blood boiling. Yesterday, I was talking to a guy I know who was recently married (friend of the family, yada yada yada). He was talking about the wedding and whatever, which was pretty interesting, although I'm not generally a big wedding fan.

Anyhow, I can't remember HOW we got on the topic--it might have been the arrival of my mother, who kept her own last name upon marrying--but the next thing I know, he's talking about how thankful he is to have married such a great woman, etc., etc., and how glad he is that she agreed to take his name, because he wouldn't marry her otherwise.



This is an allegedly progressive man, telling me that he told his wife she was taking his name, or they weren't getting married. If I were the woman, I would tell him to go fuck himself. Any man who demands that you take his name sounds sketchy to me. Even though the woman "readily agreed," according to him, that's still one of the dumbest "progressive" things I've ever heard of. I could never marry a man knowing that he wanted me to take his name, and wouldn't marry me elsewise.