People making the joke that Travis Kelce is going to change his last name to Swift are only making the point that women changing their last name after marriage can seem equally as ridiculous.
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I was happy to change mine. 1. I love my husband and 2. My maiden name has 12 letters and my married name 6! #WritersCramp
aug 27, 2025, 10:48 pm • 7 0 • view
Renaming women on the occasion of their marriage is an anochronism to when a wife was chattel. We concluded she should retain her birth name ("maiden name" is just wrong) upon the occasion of our wedding. I don't mind when folks call by hers.
aug 28, 2025, 12:57 am • 2 0 • view
Yeah we were conned, women changing their names is degrading.
aug 27, 2025, 10:18 pm • 9 0 • view
Believe me, I have in no way been “degraded”. I am one of 5 sisters, two of us took our husband’s name, two hyphenated their names and one kept our family name. It was a choice and I found it easier when we had children. 45 years and I am a respected matriarch - respected and loved, hardly degraded
aug 28, 2025, 11:05 am • 2 0 • view
And if women do, the GOP’s SAVE Act will prohibit them from voting, if their name doesn’t match their birth certificate.
aug 27, 2025, 10:14 pm • 9 0 • view
When we got married I told my wife she could keep her last name, I didn't care, but she wanted to change it. Tradition I guess. In retrospect, I should have taken her maiden name. How cool would that have been?
aug 28, 2025, 12:11 pm • 1 0 • view
It probably should be hyphenated. Indicating a combination of both families.
aug 27, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Have you seen what happens when 2 hyphenated named people get married?
aug 27, 2025, 10:40 pm • 0 0 • view
No, I haven't.
aug 27, 2025, 10:43 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not a long-term solution, really. The couple on the show I watched ended up taking a relatives name that was going to die out with him.
aug 27, 2025, 10:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, then the simpler solution seems to be to just keep your own individual names. Or not get married.
aug 27, 2025, 10:50 pm • 2 0 • view
What's your kids name then? It's so complicated
aug 27, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't have any children, but I guess one could just pick. I'd toss a coin. Let fate decide.
aug 27, 2025, 10:57 pm • 1 0 • view
I kept my name and our kids have my last name as their middle name and dad's name as their last name. In hindsight, we should have switched that, because a) I birthed them and b) I didn't like people assuming I wasn't their mom. (And I did all of the school paperwork, Dr visits, etc)
aug 28, 2025, 12:00 am • 4 0 • view
If they keep saying it, he just might do it.
aug 27, 2025, 10:51 pm • 0 0 • view
I always kind of dug what John and Yoko did; she changed her name to Yoko Ono Lennon, and he changed his name to John Ono Lennon.
aug 27, 2025, 11:42 pm • 2 0 • view
It is ridiculous. I'm convinced women do it because it makes it easier to pick their kids up from school.
aug 27, 2025, 10:14 pm • 1 0 • view
100%
aug 28, 2025, 12:49 am • 0 0 • view
People making fun of Kelce IMO making fun because he’s going to reap the benefits of her 1.6 BILLION dollars & just plain jealous! It’s silly & shows their little🍆energy! If you’re with a MAN that insist U give up your name IMO is far more important & ridiculous of the MAN!
aug 27, 2025, 10:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Taylor Kelce and Travis Swift. Just exchange last names!
aug 28, 2025, 9:39 am • 0 0 • view
I find the joke funny because it forces us to think about why it's funny, if women are equal to men. If you have half a brain, anyway.
aug 28, 2025, 4:49 am • 3 0 • view
🙄🙄
aug 28, 2025, 12:27 am • 0 0 • view
Travis swift is a kick ass name
aug 28, 2025, 4:26 am • 0 0 • view
My wife had a choice. She changed her name to mine. I told her to think about it first. She still changed her name. That was nearly 40 years ago.
aug 28, 2025, 11:50 am • 0 0 • view
I wish I hadn’t changed mine when I got married. Changing everything back to my maiden name was a huge pain in the ass.
aug 27, 2025, 11:14 pm • 3 0 • view
Why are we keeping marriage as a thing again?
aug 27, 2025, 10:40 pm • 3 0 • view
Swift-Kelcy would be a really cool name for a tight-end in the NFL, though….
aug 28, 2025, 1:26 am • 0 0 • view
Any woman who changes her name isn't paying attention.
aug 28, 2025, 1:19 am • 2 0 • view
It’s a hassle and costs money to change your name. And if you’ve had any kind of professional experience…
aug 28, 2025, 2:57 am • 4 0 • view
Men should take their wives last name. Women have the children. Hell fire to those who think for one second a child I birthed isn’t getting my last name.
aug 27, 2025, 10:52 pm • 2 0 • view
First, it is none of our business. Secondly, it is none of our business. Third, you get the idea...
aug 27, 2025, 11:30 pm • 1 0 • view
It is.
aug 28, 2025, 12:49 am • 2 0 • view
When my husband and I got married we discussed what our last name would be. I hated my maiden name and he had his abusive adopted father's name. We settled on his mother's maiden name or really his gr-father's last name because he said his gr-father was more of a father to him that his step-father.
aug 27, 2025, 11:14 pm • 7 0 • view
I’m glad I didn’t change my name. It’s really no big deal if you don’t have kids. 😁
aug 28, 2025, 1:43 am • 2 0 • view
Even with kids, it’s not a big deal. I didn’t push my wife to take my last name, and it has never caused problems. If the SAVE Act passes the Senate, she wouldn’t be disenfranchised by it, either.
aug 28, 2025, 11:11 am • 4 0 • view
Well that will never happen simply because his name is a commercial branding thing.
aug 27, 2025, 11:51 pm • 0 0 • view
You should go with the Spanish model and keep your names, the children get a combination of both 👍
aug 27, 2025, 11:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly!
aug 28, 2025, 2:29 am • 0 0 • view
Are they? I think they are talking about money and branding.
aug 28, 2025, 3:05 am • 0 0 • view