• Banana
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    8 hours ago

    Interesting thing about that is that, while it’s still common practice, a lot of more left-leaning women did away with taking their husband’s name years ago

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      Yeah my wife and I just kept our name. Its funny because over the years we sorta wish we would have done the traditional thing as it would make a variety of things easier but now apparently its becoming a brilliant move.

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        4 hours ago

        We got married ten years ago and she didn’t take my name. I’m very much cool with it, and it’s got easier over the years.

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          yeah it was a slow burn annoyance and she gets annoyed by it more than I but it took like 20 odd years to be like. This is sorta annoying. EDITED - hey so im rethinking and it started at about the 10 year mark and built up over time but as I said its little things. My wife has a lot of medical issues though so we might have more nuisance around it than the typical couple.

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            3 hours ago

            We all got our struggles. Ours are shitty and I’m sure you guys have shitty ones too. Fucking life is shitty. All we can do is try to help our people out when we can.

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      7 hours ago

      Left leaning women are also far less likely to get married to begin with.

      The article actually points all of that out, it will be Republican women who mostly are disenfranchised by this.

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        In a sort of twisted way that could result in a blue wave if they disenfranchised ~half of their own voters and not the left.

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          They’ll presumably remedy this by giving husbands extra votes on behalf of their wives and children, as in Franco-era Spain.

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        My mom never took my dad’s so I grew up with that being the norm, so I took it step further and my partner and I are not even married despite being together 11 years.

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          Yeah my partner and I didn’t get married until 8 years deep, and that’s going steady. We were fucking on and off for years before. We did it to appease our family. Never had any kids thank the hole in the ozone.

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            Tbqh i don’t know if we are ever gonna get married, just because it’s not the main priority, but I do make sure he’s my beneficiary for most things.