Or still Cameron Diaz. The woman can keep her name if she wants to (I'm not trying to pull any SJW shit; it just annoys me when people just assume that the woman will take the man's name when they get married).
@lane6 I personally always found this "take the man's name" tradition stupid. Firstly, it comes from a time when women were seen and treated as property which is why marriage was basically a "you were your dad's property, now you're your husband's" (in my mother tongue we even add a possessive suffix to female surnames, like if your dad's name is Smith, your mom's name -if they're married of course- would be Smith's), but honestly I don't want to get too deep into that because I don't want to attract any SJWs to this thread.
Secondly, and this is the more important point, I always found it the most logical and practical thing to just take the nicer name. What if your husband has a shitty, long, hard to pronounce surname and you have an okay one? Isn't this in everyone's interest to take the better one?
@ewqa I totally agree with you. When my parents got married, my dad wanted the two of them to have the same last name, but my mom didn't want to change her name, so my dad did. That has always been such an inspiring thing to me and is the main reason why I refuse to take someone's name. Now, I don't expect the man I marry to just take my name instead; I personally think hyphenating is the best option.
Aww, that's inspiring. In my family it's always been the male name tradition for as long as I remember (which is like 3 generations), but those were different times and people didn't think about stuff the way we do nowadays.
When it comes to hyphenating, I think it's a good option, though the children will have to decide on a name anyway since they would have a super long name if everybody kept hyphenating. But that's all on the couple and their decision, I think that the surname of their future children is an important matter which they should discuss together, not just "BAM! Whoever has a dick gets to keep their name. You don't have a dick? Welp, good luck getting used to a new surname which you'll be using for at least a couple years, maybe till the rest of your life."
Secondly, and this is the more important point, I always found it the most logical and practical thing to just take the nicer name. What if your husband has a shitty, long, hard to pronounce surname and you have an okay one? Isn't this in everyone's interest to take the better one?
So… because you earn more money than someone, you have a legal right to OWN them?
When it comes to hyphenating, I think it's a good option, though the children will have to decide on a name anyway since they would have a super long name if everybody kept hyphenating. But that's all on the couple and their decision, I think that the surname of their future children is an important matter which they should discuss together, not just "BAM! Whoever has a dick gets to keep their name. You don't have a dick? Welp, good luck getting used to a new surname which you'll be using for at least a couple years, maybe till the rest of your life."