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Progressives: Giving your son a boy name could make him think he's a boy
conservativereview.com ^ | Aug. 24, 2016 | Carly Hoilman

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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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: children; genderneutral; liberalism
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To: pgyanke

They already are destroying the bodies of children and adolescents with surgery and drugs.


61 posted on 08/26/2016 7:29:34 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: PROCON

Progressives: naming your son “Journey” or “Delta” will get his butt kicked repeatedly on the playground.


62 posted on 08/26/2016 7:29:34 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Ditter

A group of us skipped school one day and went to downtown Pittsburgh to go up to the top of the Gulf building. We had to sign in. Everyone used funny names Jim Nasium, Peter Goesinya etc. Hubbard Booze used his real name and was denied admission.


63 posted on 08/26/2016 7:30:46 AM PDT by IC Ken
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To: Ditter

64 posted on 08/26/2016 7:30:59 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: little jeremiah
They already are destroying the bodies of children and adolescents with surgery and drugs.

I know. Somewhat rhetorical question, really.

65 posted on 08/26/2016 7:31:13 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Fresh Wind

Anyone remember the great sportswriter from the Washington Post, Shirley Povich?

He once explained that Shirley was a common man’s name in Maine, where he grew up. He was born in 1905 in Maine. So apparently it was common at that time and place.


66 posted on 08/26/2016 7:32:15 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: little jeremiah

Marian is the female version, isn’t it? And when has Delta been anything but a female name?


67 posted on 08/26/2016 7:32:21 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: little jeremiah
Ignoring their fiendish fixation wtih sexual perversion and rebellion against readon and Natural Law has gotten us where we are.

They DEMAND submission, just like Islam.

Fighting back is the only solution, just like with Islam.

I agree wholeheartedly. Here is my effort in fighting back: Defeating the Culture of Death: The Pro-Life Vote

68 posted on 08/26/2016 7:33:45 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: PROCON

Giving the kid a name should not be a political statement.


69 posted on 08/26/2016 7:34:22 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic PartyÂ’s press agency now: Robert Spencer.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Just give every kid a serial number, like that Finn character in “Star Wars” had before he became Finn. 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.


70 posted on 08/26/2016 7:38:57 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I'm a Contra."--President Ronald Reagan)
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To: Dr. Sivana

LOL!


71 posted on 08/26/2016 7:41:10 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Ironhead Gallon (real name) is playing football for Georgia Southern. I don’t think he had any “confusion” growing up. Other than. Should he be an OL or a DL.


72 posted on 08/26/2016 7:52:17 AM PDT by MGG
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To: jsanders2001

I heard of a woman named Stanley. We are going to be cleaning up her mess for years to come.


73 posted on 08/26/2016 7:53:57 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: GOPJ

That’s a true story. I bet he’s dead by now. I could probably find his obituary and post it. The guy was never right in the head and everybody said it was because of his mother. You give a guy a girl’s name and you’re going to put someone through a lot of pain because all throughout their whole life. It says everything you need to know about the mother.


74 posted on 08/26/2016 7:54:10 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: All

The Left seem intent on confirming their idiocy on an hourly basis.


75 posted on 08/26/2016 7:55:44 AM PDT by Maverick68 (p)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Just give every kid a serial number... a number is gender-neutral but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that an academic somewhere might find bias in numbers too.

Reminds me of a trip I took to Ireland some time after the mad-cow disease thing forced farmers to destroy their cattle. I visited a farm and all the cows had number tags on their ears. The farmer told me that after having destroyed his former herd, he no longer called his cows by name; it was too emotionally difficult.

The totalitarian instinct is to kill off everything loving and empathetic within us. We can't even love our God-given gender, which is the Second Gift given us by Him after the First Gift, which is being made in His image as a child of God.

76 posted on 08/26/2016 7:56:24 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("They only smear who they fear." --Diamond and Silk)
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To: sportutegrl
< I heard of a woman named Stanley. We are going to be cleaning up her mess for years to come.

Wouldn't happen to be Stanley Steamer would it? lol

77 posted on 08/26/2016 7:57:25 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Albion Wilde
The totalitarian instinct is to kill off everything loving and empathetic within us.

And that's why the totalitarians need to be smacked down and smacked down hard.

78 posted on 08/26/2016 7:59:34 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: PROCON

While I believe progressives have a right to be total annoying asses, (a lot of Americans suffered and or died for the right) I question whether they have the right to damage children with their foolishness.


79 posted on 08/26/2016 8:01:37 AM PDT by lrdg
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To: little jeremiah

“Marion is a traditional male name, just out of use.”

My father and grandfather were named Marion. My brother and I both dodged that bullet.


80 posted on 08/26/2016 8:05:39 AM PDT by lrdg
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