Buzzo
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I'm curious though. Anyone who feels it's weird, for feminist reasons, to take your husband's name, how would you feel about a husband taking the wife's name? Would you be ok with that and not question it?
I'd totally question it because I think it's really interesting and would be interested to know what motivates people to do that shit, because I'm really nosey.
I think to understand the/a feminist viewpoint on this you have to locate it in it's historical feminist context- resisting aeons and aeons of male power and ownership of women. The taking of the mans name is hugely symbolic of this (ownership of you being passed from yer da to yer fella). The other way round mightn't have the same cultural or historical connotations, and certainly doesn't possess the same power as a symbolic act. That being said, it's such a personal decision and it's not cool to judge people on it- but I think there's value in discussing these things as phenomena all the same.