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Yeah, no kidding. I guess one always must find something new to be bothered about, otherwise one runs the risk of being happy, but I've been getting more bothered lately about the attitude of boys' names on girls being "hands-off" for boys than boys' names being used on girls, the idea that use by girls spoils or taints boys' names somehow. That's icky, man. Of course the sensible argument behind it is that immediate gender delineations are a desirable aspect of a kids' name, and while we're still living in a society where everything is colored by gender binary this is IMO a legitimate, non-icky concern. But the big question is whether living in terms of gender binary is a legitimate, non-icky worldview, and I think we're slowly moving in the direction of such a paradigm shift, as evidenced partly by the unisexification of sexified names. I'm less bothered now by boy names on girls and I'm quietly rooting for a countermovement of girl names on boys to rear its head.