Posted on 08/26/2016 6:45:36 AM PDT by PROCON
A recent New York Times article noted that celebrity parents are favoring "post-gender" or "gender agnostic" names for their newborns. The piece cites examples like Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green, who named their son "Journey," and Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell, who named their second daughter "Delta" (their first daughter? "Lincoln").
"Gender-blurring baby names are on the rise among American parents," the article notes.
“The old ‘Boy Named Sue’ idea of a boy being shamed by having a girl’s name is passing away,” Pamela Redmond Satran, a founder of the baby-naming website Nameberry, told the Times. Last December, Nameberry called "post-gender" names (that is, a name given to both boys and girls in roughly equal measure) the biggest trend for 2016. “Today, boys named Tatum feel as cool as girls named Rory, and vice versa.”
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Culture and time blur boundaries of many names:
Francis of Assisi (or Francis Schaeffer)
Fay Vincent (former baseball commish)
Loraine Boettner (Reformed theology writer)
I don’t care if a girl is named Dirk Steelman... the parenting means so much more to her than the name.
That is not going very far. Inside of 10 years the muslims will take care of that problem. How? By cutting their heads off. Without a head, it is difficult to get around. The “What did to make you hate mes” will have no effect on the sword swingers.
Amen! Along with the children being taken from them.
Percy Dovetonsils
Little boys, instead of going into the dentist to have a cavity filled will go into a clinic to have the transformation, the natural progression of cosmetic surgery. The male genitalia will be treated like an unwanted mole, surgeons will be overpaid Lorena Bobbitts.
0 and 1 could be have issues...
Darn it, I should read after I make changes:
0 and 1 could have issues...
Perhaps all names should be assigned by a government agency using a computer from a databank that includes all PC acceptable names. When it is time to name the baby the new parents query the data bank on their smart phone or desktop or the computer at the library and receive a randomly generated name or, as happens sometimes anyway, it can be given by the naming clerk at the hospital.
Here’s my rule on names: if it ends in a vowel sound, it’s a girl. Otherwise, it’s a boy. (I’m talking about the actual name, not nicknames like Jackie or Sammy or what-not.)
I used to know a guy named Shirley, and twin girls named Johnny and Michael.
Better yet, Shirley was the sheriff and you did not want to mess with him. Big and bad.
Visions of 70s feminism...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sn8H42FZcI
“I assume a number is gender-neutral but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that an academic somewhere might find bias in numbers too.”
http://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/are_numbers_gendered
RE “...You don’t ‘lock them up’ you ignore them...”
Until they get in positions of authority and law-making power and then try to lock YOU up for disagreeing, or declare you a “domestic terrorist”, or a “hate group”... or take your pic...
A compilation or quirks and fetishes.
I went to school with a guy named Beverly, but he used Bevo as a nickname. Cool guy.
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