Comments by "Andre Falksmen" (@andrefalksmen1264) on "" video.

  1. Ostensibly, men taking the last name of a woman is not, in and of itself, a violation of the patriarchal system. Traditionally, in Asian societies, this is taking place where the father has no Sons and leaves his assets and property to the husband of his firstborn daughter, on the condition that he takes on the family name of the wife's father. This still happens in Japan where families have no male heirs so the daughter's husband changes his last name and is legally adopted and receives the property and inheritance that would normally go to a son. The practices are going to be less common in the west, however beer and mine it did occur to certain degree. There are thousands of aristocratic families with "double bolted" last names, like "Oliff-Copper", where the outline of the female family was effectively dying out, but had substantial more assets then the family to which the daughter was to marry, the condition of the marriage and passing of the assets to the woman's husband being that he adopt the surname. Even in America, it was not uncommon until the 1960s for men with particularly ethnic surnames to adopt the surname of the woman they were marrying, if it sounded more waspy. Case in point, Martha Stewart, whose maiden name is a Polish ancestry, mentioned that her brother, a dentist, took his wife's surname in order not to have an "ethnic practice" and attract more upper middle-class clientele.
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