Arbit Raj

Genderbenders

First, do read the blog piece and comments on the link above to make sense of my writing. Well, I could'nt agree more with what Nikita says on her blog about the female surname as an instrument to push old sexist concepts. Nonetheless, I take off from where some of the comments end.

Disclaimer: No offence intended to potential namesakes.

Assume that you have the first generation of kids with hybrid surnames. What do you do when they marry? What would their kids names be? I illustrate with an example.

First generation couple, each of whose parents were progressive and gave them hybrid surnames - Mr. Rahul Aggrawal-Singh and Ms. Sonia Lobo-Raut. They now have a daughter called Avantika. What surname do they give her?

Avantika Aggrawal-Singh-Lobo-Raut???

I'm not harbouring any sexist ideas myself, while writing this. I don't have the right solution, but there's a bit of a problem here with hybrid surnames :-)