I'm happy that your marriage has worked out Svelte, my point is though that it's a bit silly for you to be judging women on taking their husbands last names when you yourself were pressured into a marriage. To me and many others, the last name would be the lesser of two evils.

"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect." Ambrose Bierce