And like if it old, it must have meant just oppressive, patriarchal, archaic, and bad.

When it's like, you do realize there was loving, gentle, compassionate, wise,

people back then who fought for justice, equality, you know, I mean, all these different things.

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So should a wife take her husband's last name?

This is a conversation that I know is going to erupt in this next generation, and I read a very well-thought-out article on this topic. And I wanted to quote a few things and just give you guys some reflections

about this, okay? Because I think that this is a, this is a topic that actually, it's interesting.

There's two ways to have this conversation, and I really want to kind of tease out the two ways.

So let me read to you guys. So the article is subtitled, the archaic tradition of assuming a woman will take her husband's name needs to stop.

Okay, and this is some of the things that he wrote.

Unless a guy is willing to make that non-traditional trend-setting last name leap, in other words, if the guy is not willing to take his wife's last name, which I hope will become

increasingly popular, his public identity largely remains the same as it did before marriage,

um, patriarchally higher than his wife. And that, my friends, I would argue, is overlooking a game

changing chance to enter into marriage with a powerful

advertisement of equality and commitments.

So, guys, one of the things that's happening in our culture is that we are living, surrounded

by the antiques of a multi-generational society.

And what was interesting to me about reading this article is that there was not a single

mention of the impact of this last name conversation, what it would have on the descendants of

this family, which would have been the first question 100 years ago. So we see everything,

you guys, through the lens of the individual. And the argument that he's making here, from the

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