I wouldn't give a fuck. Think about it. For years they have made women give up their ancestry. Women, even still in many Middle East and Asian countries are thought of as property...without rights. What's more important is having a woman who loves you regardless of how much money you have and ll the other flaky bullshit. A name is a name.
(Every man is every country thinks of his woman, as his woman. Thus - ownership. If women were not considered property than a divorce wouldn't include spousal support. Why? Because an independent woman would have to be responsible for themselves at the end of a marriage. Please stop sharing your myth on how middle eastern marriages function. Life is not harsher from those women. They wouldn't trade their lifestyle for the lifestyle of the american wife.)
Most of you dudes who are so staunchly against it, probably don't like independant women,
(Why would a woman that is getting married still hold on to her independence?)
and/or couldn't take it if your woman made more money than you (even though if you are pulling $40K and she is pulling $50, then as a household you are making $90K). It is her choice, because it is her name. Now if she didn't want to wear a wedding ring or acknowledge we were married as one thing, but a name is simply that...a name.
Try doing some Roots-like geneology thing trying to trace your lines. After 35 years of being Mrs. Emma Phillips, who the hell even remembers what her maiden name was? Maybe women, or some women, feel as strongly as men do when they don't have a son to pass on their family name. Some men are so self absorbed that they don't think about things like that.
I am not your adversary on this issue, but I do see that redefining the terms of traditional marriage is problematic. So, if they have 2 children each child should take a name from either parent? Should the male carry one of those pregnancies? Should he wear a white dress on their wedding day? Can she have a best man too since most of her friends are guys?
Marriage is not about independence. It's about forming a union.
Lastly, and most important, most societies have learned over the course of several generations that it is important for males to take ownership of the family unit to ensure a healthier family unit. The black woman has been the primary owner of the black family unit for the last few generations and we can look at how fucked up we are as a people. We all know that we need a healthy black man invested in the family unit. Independent women are a myth.
I wonder how many of the people who reply to this are "stunters", talking tough to go with the popular opinion. BGOL has a lot of "FOLLOWERS". I am not pointing fingers at any of you. But BGOL represents real life in a sense. So many people are scared to go on their own. To go against what the popular opinion is and say, "I think like this. If you don't like it...TOUGH" I am strong enough to stand against the grain...are you?