The practice of a woman taking a mans name is something that people have accepted as a norm. Personally I never even questioned the practice. I don’t think this is because I am a misogynist. I have always seen women as equal in all ways. I never questioned the practice because to me it has always just been the normal. I grew up and learned that that is just what happens when you get married. My parents told me that’s what happens, in school I learned that’s what happens and in society I always saw that’s just what happens. It was just the way it was. To be honest growing up when I met someone who didn’t take his or her husbands name it seemed unusual. I guess that would be a perfect example of hegemonic masculinity. Now I don’t think anything
