On his radio show yesterday, Dennis Prager said: Here’s a touchy subject I have strong opinions on.
Let me deal with the hyphenation matter first. I know people with hyphenated last names. Many of them are wonderful.
The most obvious problem, aside from the awkwardness, is the children. So they get hyphenated last names and then say they marry someone else with a hyphenated last name. What happens?
This is all a product of the feminism of the 1960s, 1970s. That this is not equal. Why should she take his last name? She is losing her identity. Like Hillary Clinton has lost her identity because she has the last name Clinton. She’s a shrinking violet. It’s just not true. A woman’s strength is not dependent on her last name. If so, you’d have to argue that all women through Western history have lost their identity.
There are many positive aspects to taking the husband’s last name. Then the children have the same last name as the parents.
I believe that both sexes have to give up something to marry. Men do give up something more when they get married. They give up their nature, which is a wandering nature sexually.
Men have more at stake when they decide to get married. They think they’ll never get to possess another female body for the rest of their life. The proof? Men are often the more recalcitrant about getting married. Have you ever seen a book titled ‘Why Women Won’t Commit?’?
When a woman takes her husband’s last name, he thinks: You take my name. I commit to you exclusively.
