chapotraphouse

The married couple should have to draw a random surname from the top 1000 most popular ones but with 1 % obvious joke names sprinkled in, no refunds

Changing your name can be a bitch. I know people with dual citizenship for whom it's even worse. Obviously the solution is to make it easier but advising women to not change their names in places where doing so is difficult is good advice.

My proposition: couples dont change surnames on marriage but children have surnames that are just first names of their parents

My platonic ideal of a Blarite politician is a lady with three hyphenated names that are just different regional variants of that name. Like Elizabeth Smith-Smythe-Schmidt or something.

what if instead of Michael Keaton, it was Michael Penis.

I actually have a somewhat serious question about this. I know a guy who had a really bland and boring surname so when he got married he took his wife's name. The thing is, she's from an ethnic minority and he is not. Am I wrong to think it's weird for a white person to change their name to a minority one but not the other way around? A Huang changing their name to Smith feels normal but a Smith changing their name to Huang just feels appropriationy.

As the nuclear family withers away and is replaced by more social relationships and parenting, I imagine keeping one's surname will become more common just out of practicality.

Just abolish surnames altogether. No reason to have them

When I changed my name I decided not to have a middle name cause they're kinda dumb and my parents didn't have them either.. I'll probably put my maiden name there if I get married.

Our last name should be an assigned number counting from the first ever human to you.

There should be some game played in which the winner decides who keeps the surname. They can decide what game is played.