Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address

Re:Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your g... by onesociety2022 on Thursday December 25, 2025 @09:06PM (#46388563)

Not only is it strange, it’s obviously very sexist in practice. In majority of the cases, it’s always the woman who changes her last name. The husband gets to keep his. I still find it very strange and shocking that powerful women with successful careers in modern society still keep changing their names after getting married.

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Re:Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your g... by charcircuit on Thursday December 25, 2025 @09:15PM (#46388601)

By such a definition any tradition related to gender would be sexist. The tradition is that the wife will change her name. This tradition is why it makes up the majority of cases.

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Re:Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your g... by kelnos on Thursday December 25, 2025 @11:32PM (#46389254)

No, any tradition that favors one gender over the other is sexist. Which is absolutely the case with the tradition of women taking their husband's family name when they get married.

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Re:Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your g... by onesociety2022 on Thursday December 25, 2025 @09:28PM (#46388671)

Not really - this “tradition” as you call it obviously started back in the day when women did not have equal rights in society and only the husband’s lineage mattered.

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Re:Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your g... by meitham on Friday December 26, 2025 @03:13AM (#46390247)

How do you propose fixing that? Let the kids take both parents last names? In few generations you end with kids having their entire family tree as their last name! It might even make marrying within the tribe attractive again to keep last name single word!

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Re:Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your g... by iknowstuff on Friday December 26, 2025 @05:54AM (#46391001)

Portmanteaus

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Re:Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your g... by onesociety2022 on Friday December 26, 2025 @03:00PM (#46395601)

First there’s absolutely no real reason for a spouse to change their name just because they got married.

You can do hyphenated last names for a kid and let the kids decide what names they want to carry forward for the next generation. Or they can make up their own. The point is it’s up to them and they can choose whatever they want and not be coerced to do something because of some tradition that is rooted in sexism.

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Re:Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your g... by 47282847 on Friday December 26, 2025 @09:36AM (#46392345)

Any tradition had to be introduced as new at some point. Matriarchies were a thing. And still are in some regions of the world.

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Re:Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your g... by bigstrat2003 on Thursday December 25, 2025 @09:15PM (#46388599)

It is not sexist at all, let alone "obviously very sexist". Don't impute malicious motives to people like that, it's extremely rude.

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Re:Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your g... by krainboltgreene on Thursday December 25, 2025 @11:17PM (#46389185)

Come on man, I think it's safe to say a tradition that favor's men over women is reasonably sexist, especially given the time the tradition established women were property.

I don't think Belgium's feelings will get hurt, besides wait until you learn about all the other things that Leopold II did.

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Re:Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your g... by vedmakk on Friday December 26, 2025 @01:39AM (#46389726)

I changed my name to my wife's name when we got married. Where I live, everyone can choose if they want to keep their name or change it to either ones. So its a free choice.

AND: Hope gmail will rollout this feature asap, so I can FINALLY adjust my email address too.

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Re:Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your g... by Ferret7446 on Saturday December 27, 2025 @05:06AM (#46400629)

These traditions stem from pre-contemporary patriarchal societies, where the man leads the household and thus his name is retained.

There have been matriarchal societies in history, but they all ceased to exist. Make of that what you will.

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