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  • Column: What's in a name? By ChaToyya Sewell (Yours truly AND FR attacked - again)

    11/21/2009 9:43:37 AM PST · by Responsibility2nd · 185 replies · 4,361+ views
    The Maneater ^ | 11/17/2009 | ChaToyya Sewell
    My name is ChaToyya Eryn ChaNayle. Through the years I've endured derision, cackles and mispronunciation. Let's ignore my middle names. Things might get a bit more complicated with those, but ChaToyya is pretty straightforward. Cha — as in Charlotte, Toy — as in a children's plaything, Ya — and if you can't figure that out, there is little help for you. An introductory mispronunciation is fine. I've done it too, but this continual ignorance of what is my name is not. The subtext is my name is merely a stereotype, freely available as someone's punch line, ignoring that my name...