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Posted: 11 years ago
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Originally posted by: Nabihah


I don't necessarily think that women lose their identity by changing their names after marriage. Now a days most women have a choice in the matter and many still choose to go with their husband's name, because they want to add to their identity, not really take away from it. Now that being said, I totally get where you're coming from. There are many hypocrites who will say that women should always change their names after marriage and husbands shouldn't. In this day and age, I think it should be up to the couple whether or not they want to change or add any names or not.

Now in THIS case, I just brought this up because I thought it was funny that Sameer/Aditya had no identity of himself. He's not only mooching off of the Jagganath's daulat shaulat, but also using their name. If it was shown that Aditya had changed his last name to Jagannath because he actually wanted to add his wife's identity to his own identity (regardless of her wealth, then it wouldn't be as big of a deal. BUT that isn't the case at all...😆

if you say a woman doesn't lose her identity when she changes her surname, in some cases even the name and has to go around telling people her new identity, then how does Adi not have his own identity for taking the jagannath surname? is it bcoz we don't know wht his surname was before marriage?
critics can say that for women too who live on their husband's money, that they take the husbands' surname and use his money in return for cooking him food

and I didn't mean you when I said hypocrites. it is just in general that when a woman does these things, we take it for granted. but when a man does stuff, we all jump up and make fun of him.
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Posted: 11 years ago
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In Hispanic families the men take the woman's surname😃 Just a fact, they may keep their last name but the last name at the end of all those names is their wife's surname, now if i was marrying a Spanish guy that would be interesting, however I'm engaged to an Indian guy and I will likely try to hypenate my madien name and his surname
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Posted: 11 years ago
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I have strongly feminist views but I would never want my husband to change his last name to mine simply because I wouldn't want him and me to become a joke for people to laugh at. Only a handful of people would think its normal. 99% of society would find that funny or weird. I would never let anyone dictate my life or tell me what to wear or what to do. I am not traditional in any sense. BUT I'm not gonna dominate my husband and tell him to change his last name to mine lol. That's just psycho.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Unless you want everyone to laugh at you lol

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Posted: 11 years ago
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Originally posted by: RamanIshita

I have strongly feminist views but I would never want my husband to change his last name to mine simply because I wouldn't want him and me to become a joke for people to laugh at. Only a handful of people would think its normal. 99% of society would find that funny or weird. I would never let anyone dictate my life or tell me what to wear or what to do. I am not traditional in any sense. BUT I'm not gonna dominate my husband and tell him to change his last name to mine lol. That's just psycho.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Unless you want everyone to laugh at you lol

and clearly your in-laws won't allow you to keep your original surname and live on. see you used the word 'dominate' when you mentioned him changing his surname!

wonder what social activists eat, bcoz they don't think of log kya sochenge and bring about changes. or else we would still be having sati system in the society. I'm sure the first people who didn't take dowry must not have cared what society would say and did the right thing.
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Originally posted by: napster


and clearly your in-laws won't allow you to keep your original surname and live on. see you used the word 'dominate' when you mentioned him changing his surname!

wonder what social activists eat, bcoz they don't think of log kya sochenge and bring about changes. or else we would still be having sati system in the society. I'm sure the first people who didn't take dowry must not have cared what society would say and did the right thing.



😆 🤣 Ahahahahahahahahahahaha my in-laws wouldn't allow me to what? A) I would never marry a guy who's parents even tried to give me unwanted advice. B) I would never live with the guy's parents or let them have any say in my life. That's just how me and my family are. We are far from traditional and easily modernized.

If he has an attractive last name, I might add it to my first and last name. But chances are I won't find a better last name than mine anyway so I will just stick to mine.

All that being said, I would never embarrass myself by letting my husband even consider changing his last name to mine no matter how much he loves me.
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Originally posted by: RamanIshita



😆 🤣 Ahahahahahahahahahahaha my in-laws wouldn't allow me to what? A) I would never marry a guy who's parents even tried to give me unwanted advice. B) I would never live with the guy's parents or let them have any say in my life. That's just how me and my family are. We are far from traditional and easily modernized.

If he has an attractive last name, I might add it to my first and last name. But chances are I won't find a better last name than mine anyway so I will just stick to mine.

All that being said, I would never embarrass myself by letting my husband even consider changing his last name to mine no matter how much he loves me.

so in-laws giving you advice is unacceptable but what society thinks is not. won't this same soceity ridicule you for not being there with ur husband's family and following their orders

again how is your hubby taking your surname an embarrassment? oh I forgot, log kya kahenge matters the most. don't mean to be personal but here's hoping the family doesn't demand a dowry but your parents will have to give otherwise again people will make fun of this, how parents didn't give stuff to her kudi.
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Originally posted by: napster


so in-laws giving you advice is unacceptable but what society thinks is not. won't this same soceity ridicule you for not being there with ur husband's family and following their orders

again how is your hubby taking your surname an embarrassment? oh I forgot, log kya kahenge matters the most. don't mean to be personal but here's hoping the family doesn't demand a dowry but your parents will have to give otherwise again people will make fun of this, how parents didn't give stuff to her kudi.




Whoa this all seems like some ancient old world shit. I forgot to mention one important fact: I live in Canada and not some rural village in India. Society makes fun of you if you talk about stuff like following your in-laws orders here. They would call you a doormat or a pushover. And dowry isn't a concept here (hell that crap doesn't even happen in Indian cities any more. Which self-respecting girl would marry a guy who begs her for money). And I'm not concerned about a small group of desis, everyone tries to do what the majority does. And the majority here doesn't "follow in-laws orders" lol and doesn't have guys change their last names for girls. I'm just talking about what's normal. If some uneducated girl immigrated here after getting married, she may bring along those traditional values but I haven't come across such scenarios in our friend circle.
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Originally posted by: RamanIshita




Whoa this all seems like some ancient old world shit. I forgot to mention one important fact: I live in Canada and not some rural village in India. Society makes fun of you if you talk about stuff like following your in-laws orders here. They would call you a doormat or a pushover. And dowry isn't a concept here (hell that crap doesn't even happen in Indian cities any more. Which self-respecting girl would marry a guy who begs her for money). And I'm not concerned about a small group of desis, everyone tries to do what the majority does. And the majority here doesn't "follow in-laws orders" lol and doesn't have guys change their last names for girls. I'm just talking about what's normal. If some uneducated girl immigrated here after getting married, she may bring along those traditional values but I haven't come across such scenarios in our friend circle.



I don't mean to but-in to your guys' convo, but I feel like there's some miscommunication and misunderstandings here. On some level, both of you guys agree that the times are changing and you shouldn't do things simply because other people tell you to. But I think what 'napster' is asking is you 'RamanIshita' ...is if you are not concerned with what others say and you don't let others dictate your life, then how come you wouldn't want your husband to change his surname to yours simply because of what society thinks/ because it's embarrassing?Do you know what I mean? Just wanted to clarify that because I felt like reading your msgs that this particular question was lost in the midst. 😊
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Originally posted by: xxRoohanixx



I don't mean to but-in to your guys' convo, but I feel like there's some miscommunication and misunderstandings here. On some level, both of you guys agree that the times are changing and you shouldn't do things simply because other people tell you to. But I think what 'napster' is asking is you 'RamanIshita' ...is if you are not concerned with what others say and you don't let others dictate your life, then how come you wouldn't want your husband to change his surname to yours simply because of what society thinks/ because it's embarrassing?Do you know what I mean? Just wanted to clarify that because I felt like reading your msgs that this particular question was lost in the midst. 😊

you got it.

this is why I chose to not reply. coz of the funny reply how Canada was a utopia where these things don't happen. the member got too defensive, so I thought to leave it on that 😆
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Originally posted by: xxRoohanixx




I don't mean to but-in to your guys' convo, but I feel like there's some miscommunication and misunderstandings here. On some level, both of you guys agree that the times are changing and you shouldn't do things simply because other people tell you to. But I think what 'napster' is asking is you 'RamanIshita' ...is if you are notconcernedwith what others say and you don't let others dictate your life, then how come you wouldn't want your husband to change his surname to yours simply because of what society thinks/ because it'sembarrassing?Do you know what I mean? Just wanted to clarify that because I felt like reading your msgs that this particular question was lost in the midst.😊



Yep that question has been answered multiple times in my above reply. Of course I care about my image among my society (people I like and I want to hang out with). And those people are not traditional or weird. There is really no better way of describing the society I am talking about than "normal". Nobody I know believes in Indian traditions but even my white friends change their last names to their husband's. I think you get my point.

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