Monthly Archives: May 2011

His, not Hers: Surnames and Marriage

What do Sims 3 and Nectar card have in common? They both assume that women change their surname when they get married!

The Sims is an electronic simulation game, one of the most popular games with girls: you get to choose and create people, relationships, families, houses, life styles. If your woman Sim character gets married, her surname is automatically changed to that of her husband: you have NO choice to make about that! The assumption here is, this is what women have to do when they get married.

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