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I'd like to drop my surname and, legally, just have a first name. For me firstname.lastname is far from unique and there are better situation specific ways to disambiguate firstname when there is a clash, eg at work. Sadly UK paperwork doesn't allow it.
Also lastname remains horrible patriarchal bullshit in my mind. I'm amazed so many women continue to take their husbands name on marriage.
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Also lastname remains horrible patriarchal bullshit in my mind. I'm amazed so many women continue to take their husbands name on marriage.
Often it is easier, especially with children involved. Or, to put it the other way, keeping a maiden name can introduce a whole load of difficulties.
Various friends have children with different surnames to a parent and it's a considerable pain in the arse at various borders/hotels/etc.
Using a shortened first name is tricky enough for me. My birth certificate and health records don't match my passport/driving-license/etc which is fine most of the time but causes problems with Covid/travel related things.
P.S. Fuck the Tories.
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I'd like to drop my surname and, legally, just have a first name. For me firstname.lastname is far from unique and there are better situation specific ways to disambiguate firstname when there is a clash, eg at work. Sadly UK paperwork doesn't allow it.
Any Brazilian heritage?
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I'd like to drop my surname and, legally, just have a first name
As in Beyonce / Cher / Zendaya / Liberace?
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Seems like a pretty practical solution documenting property transfer from a father to a husband.
If you've got a basic knowledge of contract law it's quite interesting/scary to listen to the words in any trad ceremony from that perspective.
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I'd like to drop my surname and, legally, just have a first name
perhaps doesn't work so well if like me, you have a standard popular name from the 1970s, along with about five others in your school year
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NickCJ
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Convention is to call knighted men Sir Firstname. Eg Jimmy Saville is Sir Jim, Kier Starmer Sir Kier, Robert Mugabe Sir Bob etc.
I like Are You Being Served where everyone was called Mr and Miss or Mrs Surname. We should do more of that.
Because this shit definitely fucking matters.