Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions
YawningNostalgia@thelemmy.club 1 day agoThank you and I appreciate the sentiment. It’s just like if someone comes in for Dr. Chen they might feel some type of way when they see me because I don’t look Asian and need to call the translator. Maybe my last name should be Rootless or Rudderless
skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Then have some fun. Lol.
Dr. Doctor
Dr. Cool
Dr. PHD
Dr. Einstein
Dr. Word related to what you do
msfroh@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Clearly, the correct answer is Dr. Acula.
YawningNostalgia@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
I reject the concept of automatically taking a partner’s last name, as a woman. I also don’t want my father’s, for personal and professional reasons. It’s wack that we have all collectively agreed that a woman trades ownership and a large part of her identity when married. He should have to do it. I know a woman with the last name Palo who changed her name to something I find ugly when she got married and it ticks me off. It’s sexism for her to change it and not him, but we all ignore it?
I will change my name to a partner’s if they have an awesome last name, but I can’t wait on a hypothetical partner. I actually do know a couple women in my line of work who have ethnic last names that have confused patients. Einstein would be funny but I dare not.