Quote Originally Posted by Biciclista View Post
I'll confess; I remembered (what MCP meant)
I used to call my son (jokingly) a male chauvinist piglet when he was little.

In fact it got to be a running joke. He'd think up something semi-obnoxious to say just to get me to call him that, LOL!

To this day every once in awhile he'll pop out with something very definitely not PC to get a laugh, such as (and I quote):

"I happen to know that women are emotional timebombs who must be sheltered from the ways of the world lest they be overcome"

LOL!

I don't think he remembers how it got started.

As for the name change stuff, I didn't and I'm glad. This was discussed with my ex prior to the marriage at some length and then lo and behold, like 3 days before the wedding, he claims we never talked about it. I wasn't about to let him pressure me into a name change at the last minute, but it was a warning sign that the marriage was in trouble before it ever started.

The stuff about kids and last names is pretty silly as well. There are tons of yours-mine-and-ours families these days, should the kids with the "different" names feel badly? Of course not. My son had a different last name than I did for his entire life and he thought that was entirely normal. He's working on a PhD, no drugs, alcohol, STDs, car wrecks, stealing, vandalism, arson, or out-of-wedlock children. I didn't list murder, because he is a notorious killer-of-houseplants.

The fact that he had a "different" last name than I did doesn't seem to have kept him from growing up to be a well-adjusted adult.