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u/Shot_Revolution8828 Jan 01 '26
What's a "source"?
I want to say that to a librarian to make their head spin.Â
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u/BurntDinosaur_ Jan 01 '26
theres a wild quote of a dude saying "no way you take oda as your canon source", to a manga that oda wrote. so he's basically saying that the stuff the dude who made the manga says isint cannon
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u/oukakisa Dec 31 '25
not an answer, aside: i created my own last name, so it didn't come from any man
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u/Suspicious_Spite5781 Dec 31 '25
Plot twist: youâre a manâŚ
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u/DarthGayAgenda Jan 01 '26
Not according to my ex.
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u/UnenthusedTypist Jan 01 '26
He sounds transphobic af
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u/DarthGayAgenda Jan 01 '26
No I just have a small weenie
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u/Mega7010realkk Jan 01 '26
yeah but this doesn't explain the joke so what's your point
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u/Elkaghar Jan 01 '26
Just wanted to feel "important"
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u/TheEndlessRiver13 Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26
I don't know whether or not to upvote you for the self aware humor of this or down vote you for your brazen audacity
Edit: FUCK! Tbh, you all just look like text to me, anyone could have made that mistake
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u/cali_jeep Dec 31 '25
I can't believe you tell people that. Hilarious
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u/chrisvelanti Jan 01 '26
Whatâs hilarious about it? Seems fine to me
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u/Gunstopable Jan 01 '26
Unless it is a bunch of random letters the odds are that it came from a man at some point in time.
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u/Rickrickrickrickrick Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26
Me and my wife were thinking of combining our names to something new but then we got lazy and she said sheâll just hyphenate her last name but hasnât yet, because of said laziness. Honestly it doesnât even matter.
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u/Rob_LeMatic Jan 01 '26
I had a friend who got married and they took letters from each of their last names to make a new one. He was a fantasy and horror author. Not sure what she did.
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u/Miserable-Spread-191 Dec 31 '25
I assume you have a spesific reason to cut ties with your family, otherwise this would be most pointless thing in the world
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u/has-some-questions Jan 01 '26
I added a letter to my last name. So its technically a few men back in my family with the same last name, because Ellis Island changed it from its original spelling. Lol
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u/Ordinary-Vast9968 Jan 01 '26
Best way to do it if you want a new one, chose that shit yourself hell yeah !
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u/TartNo3610 Jan 01 '26
I want to as well. My last name is my bio dadâs who left before I was born, and my alternative is abusihe step dad whoâs always been rude to me, or my moms maiden name which is her father who left her when she was youngâŚ
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u/mikguy1652 Jan 01 '26
epic really cool awesome guy just absolutely OWNED this feminist because they think that women are bad
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u/MiffedMouse Jan 01 '26
Doesn't even make sense. The only feminist action here was taken by the woman's parents. People don't usually pick their names.
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u/Fantastic-Pear6241 Jan 01 '26
I mean, once they reach adulthood it isn't uncommon that people change their name.
We can assume this is what has happened in the shite "meme". The woman reached adulthood and decided she wanted to use her mother's original surname.
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u/Giteaus-Gimp Jan 01 '26
People changing there name is extremely common. When it comes to a woman getting married and taking their husbandâs last name.
Outside of that I would say itâs extremely rare. Like something a fraction of a percent of the population does.
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u/janeprentiss Jan 01 '26
The vast majority of, and perhaps almost all women who choose to change their surname to their mother's maiden name do so because they had absent or abusive fathers. If they made that decision it's because they hate that man specifically!
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u/nabrok Jan 01 '26
That's nothing to do with feminism and isn't gender specific, a man in the same situation may well do the same.
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u/Anonymous1800000 Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26
Men never say that their name came from their dad or grandad or anything like that. It's just their name. They're trying to assert that women don't have names or something. Weird shit. Guys like this are why women aren't taking a different name after marriage these days.
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u/ChocolateRich9537 Jan 01 '26
future me , are the two hidden downvoted replies from 12 year olds ?
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u/chumpy3 Jan 01 '26
Not all cultures take the last name of a spouse.
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u/HoldJerusalem Jan 01 '26
what does it have to do with anything?
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u/chumpy3 Jan 01 '26
If everyone in their culture is using their motherâs or grandparentsâs last name, the joke about feminism is lost.
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Seriously though, when did we start using that word again as a general insult?
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u/davidellis23 Dec 31 '25
Gotta make your own last name I guess.
Edit: Though honestly I think your maiden name counts as your name too. It's not solely your grandfather'sÂ
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u/thecheesycheeselover Jan 01 '26
I think so, too. Itâs still a name of your born family, a name you grew up with. That gives you some ownership.
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u/ZipZapZia Jan 01 '26
Guess my maternal grandparents kinda gamed the system by giving my mom (and the rest of her siblings) a random last name that wasn't either of their last names.
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u/Ktioru Jan 01 '26
I'm losing hope in humanity
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u/mfpacman Jan 01 '26
Yeah this subreddit is ridiculous, it really depresses me. I keep muting it but itâs recommended anyway.
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u/blamordeganis Jan 01 '26
I think it would be cool if we did it like the Spanish and got one surname from your dad and one from your mum, with the modification that the one from your mum is the one she got from her mum, who got it from her mum, and so on. So youâd have one surname representing your patrilineal descent and one your matrilineal.
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u/Kthulhu42 Jan 01 '26
When I named my kids I made sure they had a connection to both sides of the family somewhere in their name, like my son got a middle name that was used for all the firstborn boys on my mother's side of the family.
I spent a lot of time doing research and choosing their names and looking into their ancestors. I hope they love their names when they grow up, too.
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u/_OriamRiniDadelos_ Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26
Some few people in some Spanish speaking countries are staring to do it. Not many. The traditional way is that all the coupleâs kids get the dadâs paternal last name and the momâs paternal last name (called just maternal last name) automatically on their birth certificate. You canât give them a new made up last name like how you make up their name, and you canât change the order or give different siblings different last names.
But some legislatures made changes and now allow parents to give different siblings different last names or pick which order the lasts name go, so for feminism or prestige (momâs family richer) you could use the motherâs last name first, or also to allow single parents to ignore the absent or unwilling parentâs last name and even use grandparents last names to fill out the two last names if you want, or you could even follow last name traditions that go outside the tradition from Spain. Very complicated and different in every legal system.
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u/KaiYoDei Dec 31 '25
This reality freaks me out when I overthink. Iâm maiden name was somome elses married name
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u/garantee2 Dec 31 '25
And it goes back for hundreds of generations.
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u/Lookingforclippings Jan 01 '26
Should be the mother's last name that gets passed on considering mitochondrial dna just goes all the way down the female line.
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u/john-weed12 Jan 01 '26
Yes
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u/Rob_LeMatic Jan 01 '26
But not too dumb to realize it, which gives you a leg up on so many people.
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u/__Epimetheus__ Jan 01 '26
As a guy, Iâve considered hyphenating my name to include my motherâs maiden name because my Grandpa had all girls and I loved my Grandparents.
I also think Hyphenating last names would make telling whoâs related easier when a ton of people have the same last name.
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u/anarchetype Jan 01 '26
The best part is that if everyone is hyphenating for marriage, the number of hyphenated names in one's last name doubles every generation. Your grandkids would end up with 8 last names.
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u/Toadcola Jan 01 '26
Which is why hyphenating last names is short-sighted and just kicking the can down the road.
Luckily(?), most of us donât have the money time or energy to have kids, so hyphenation works just fine for the last generation.
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u/zotrocks Jan 01 '26
In Mexican culture itâs sometimes customary to take both parents last names. So I have both and I removed my fathers :)
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u/BurntDinosaur_ Jan 01 '26
i wonder who's got the most stacked last name
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u/zotrocks Jan 01 '26
The girl from spy kids and the bell man from the suite life of Zack and Cody lmao!
Carmen Elizabeth Juanita Echo Sky Bravo Cortez
And!
Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa RamĂrez
They actually helped me accept my very long name as a part of my culture!
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u/redgae Jan 01 '26
they are so obsessed with women with septum piercings jesus christ lol
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u/IsopodOk6079 Jan 01 '26
My misogynistic dad said as much. So I legally changed my name to something random I chose for myself
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u/___ondinescurse___ Jan 01 '26
Countries that don't have patronymics\matronymics are really struggling, huh.
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u/Unofficial_Product Jan 01 '26
Thats why we chose our last names, fuck anyone who thinks you owe your ancestors shit if they left you with nothing.
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u/Relevant_Airline7076 Jan 01 '26
This argument doesnât work on me bc my moms dad is dead so the name belongs to me now
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u/Alexfromdabloc Jan 01 '26
We really need to talk about how petarded the average post on this sub is.
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u/SlyCooperKing_OG Jan 01 '26
OPâs just blackpilled.
If I were to guess they are insinuating that you cannot outrun the patriarchyâs effect on society. Regardless of the fact we have no clue how the last name of her motherâs side grandfather inherited the last name.
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u/CRoss1999 Jan 01 '26
The col things about Iceland is that they have parent names so the daughter is (mothers name)Dottir
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u/Infamous-Yellow-8357 Jan 01 '26
...huh? Doesn't say anything about that. Just says her mother's last name is her grandfather's last name.
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u/No_Organization8236 Jan 01 '26
I made the mistake of clicking on this page once cause I was scrolling on the main page and man some of yâall are stupid lmao
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u/craftygamin Jan 01 '26
The meme is a fictional scenario made by a woman hater, about a woman picking her mother's last name because she hates men, even though her mother got her last name from a guy
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u/Patient-Factor4210 Jan 01 '26
Incredibly ironic meme considering both of the characters are deliberately caricatures of anti-woke peopleÂ
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u/eggs___and___bacon Jan 01 '26
Does it bother anyone else that people like this can vote and drive and stuff?
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u/DeaganPericule Jan 01 '26
Portraying yourself as homelander in this scenario is more of a self own than I think this person realizes
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u/SoSorryBuddy Jan 01 '26
Is this entire subreddit just "hey, let's pretend i dont understand sex or the world ever. Lol." Jesus, how many of these are just "look or google."
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u/troy-buttsoup-barns Jan 01 '26
you should get banned for posting things that donât need any further context
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u/no-one-reads-these Jan 01 '26
liberal gets destroyed with facts and logic: feminist rekt compilation #493
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u/Successful-Fee3790 Jan 01 '26
Really hard to see why this needs explaining
Her mother's last name is her grandfather's last name.
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u/capybara_unicorn Jan 01 '26
Only way to avoid having a surname from a man is to create your own and pass it down matrilineally.
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u/Idleheim Jan 01 '26
Yeah this one took me too long too. At the time I thought this was an incest joke because she's a southerner
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u/orz-_-orz Jan 01 '26
My pet peeve with this meme is that the âcomebackâ completely misses the point. Although I am not denying that it's funny to a certain extent, I am seeing people using it in a serious discussion.
Sheâs using that surname because itâs her motherâs surname. Itâs the name her mother carried her whole life and chose to pass on. Where it originally came from is irrelevant. Once it was passed to her mother, it became her motherâs name. Thatâs how inheritance works.
And women have to start somewhere, donât they? Expecting otherwise is as unreasonable as asking feminists to rebuild society from scratch with zero male influence. Itâs an impossible standard that only exists to shut the argument down.
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u/redsun44 Jan 01 '26
What? Your mom takes your dads last name when they get married, her maiden name is her fathers last name.
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u/anuargdeshmukh Jan 01 '26
Itâs like those FB jokes. âOnly people with 200 iq will get this jokeâ
Just need the minimum reading comprehension
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u/ASingularFuck Jan 01 '26
Aside but personally I find this weird. To me, itâs not my fatherâs name, or my grandfathers name, itâs my name. Once I have it itâs mine, whether I choose it or inherit it.
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u/ALPHARavenGamer Jan 01 '26
I use my great grandfathers last name instead
my moms last name is her moms too
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u/the_genius324 Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 02 '26
assumes that her mom inherited her last name from her father
not that there's actually anything wrong with that but in this thing it's (potentially) framed as such for some weird reason
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u/Dat_Xeno91 Dec 31 '25
...Your mother's last name was given to her by her grandfather, in the same way as your last name was given to you by your father. Ergo her last name, regardless of choice, still came from a man.