Until the 1950s, by law in Hungary the wives would take the husband’s full name. Júlia Kovacs would marry András Boráros and become Andrásné Broráros. Sexist and incredibly silly in my opinion.
Nowadays they can chose to keep their name, change it fully or change their last name. I still find a lot of women that change their names fully and it’s so confusing.
From 2004, men can also chose to change their names on the same rules.
It’d be interesting if men took on their wife’s first name, so it would immediately indicate to others if a man was married or not. And then there’d be pushback, in the same way there is to the ‘Mrs’ and ‘Miss’ titles, and parents would start naming their sons with female names to start with. (it works less well the other way around, because there’s already girls called ‘Dylan’ and ‘Taylor’, etc).
Plenty of guys named Kelly or Ashley or Avery or Morgan, already.
Well those are all historically guys names AFAIK.
Used to be wives were referred to as “Mrs. (Husband’s Name)”.
Though I’d think anyone calling my wife “Mrs. jordanlund” would be swiftly killed and nobody would find the body.
About a year after I got married, my buddy Spider was over for dinner.
We were in the kitchen doing prep as a group, because it’s fun. Spider, being a fuckwit, decides to start calling my wife Mrs Sasquatch (sasquatch being one of my nicknames).
She glared at him the first time and said “I have even less body hair than you, Mr I wish I was cool”
Which got plenty of laughter all around.
By the fifth or sixth time, Spider had run the joke into the ground as usual. He asks if Mrs Squatch could hand him the eggs. So she did. Right to the face.
Which got plenty of laughter all around tbh. Spider may be a twat, but he takes as well as he dishes out.
Gay men: Hi I’m Bill Steve and this is my husband Steve Bill.
Americans already have a confusing number of unisex names, so why not make all names unisex. The gender noun confusion clearly isn’t enough, so why not max out the potential confusion you can create.
In this world I suppose we’d start referring to people by last names more often
Yeah all you’ve done is put the family name first. Which is already a thing in some parts of the world.
Imagine you get divorced
“Oh hey Janet”
“It’s Robert now”
