Not getting married unless she takes my surname?

Whats your opinion on this? I personally would not marry a woman unless she took my last name. Every female member of my family took their husbands surname. To add to that, in all married couples I have come across, the wife took the husbands surname so I would feel emasculated if my girlfriend wouldnt take mine. You can say its chauvinistic but its something I am very traditional about. The idea of marriage is as outdated as the wife taking the husbands last name anyway. The father walking the daughter down the aisle and giving her hand to the future husband can also been seen as sexist if you think about it. Most women wouldnt make the first move on a man even if they liked him. Surely that is sexist because it requires the man to do the chasing but plenty of people accept it as the way it should be. Its how I feel about a woman taking my last name. It doesnt mean I think I own her any more than it means her dad thinks he is transferring ownership of her to me if she wants him to walk her down the aisle. Its just tradition. If my girlfriend didnt wont take my last name then I wont get married to her. I would not break up with her but we can just remain as boyfriend and girlfriend and still be happy.

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