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Help[Opinions] Re: Coming from someone who was often teased about her name...
in reply to a message by Aileen
I got called "Bony Joanie" by kids at school AND by my own family (nice, huh?). I was also "Joanie Bologna" and my oldest brother loved to chant "Bony Joanie eats rotten bologna while riding her pony".
I occasionally get "Joanie Loves Chachi" jokes, but not as often as you would think. Mostly it's from middle aged professor trying to be funny, but there was one kid in high school that would yell "Joanie Loves Chachi" at least once a day.
Being called "Bony Joanie" bothered me around age 10, when I was all arms and legs but I don't remember it bothering me for long. I sure wasn't the only one. A girl named Kara was called "Carrot" and a girl named Delores was called "Deloser". I think "Deloser" was the worst (it is pretty bad actually), but even that girl was able to blow it off.
I occasionally get "Joanie Loves Chachi" jokes, but not as often as you would think. Mostly it's from middle aged professor trying to be funny, but there was one kid in high school that would yell "Joanie Loves Chachi" at least once a day.
Being called "Bony Joanie" bothered me around age 10, when I was all arms and legs but I don't remember it bothering me for long. I sure wasn't the only one. A girl named Kara was called "Carrot" and a girl named Delores was called "Deloser". I think "Deloser" was the worst (it is pretty bad actually), but even that girl was able to blow it off.
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I now present: The Evolution of Aileen's Family Nicknames
Aileen → Leenie → Tortellini → Tort → Torty → Shorty Torty (in a singsong voice)
Yes. My father still calls me "SHOORRRTTYYYYY TORTY!" I hate it. I hate it so much. I always tell him to stop saying it and yet he never remembers. And alas, I move on.
Aileen → Leenie → Tortellini → Tort → Torty → Shorty Torty (in a singsong voice)
Yes. My father still calls me "SHOORRRTTYYYYY TORTY!" I hate it. I hate it so much. I always tell him to stop saying it and yet he never remembers. And alas, I move on.
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Both your post and Aileen's show it can happen to anyone. Interestingly everyone is more concerned over boys being teased (or beaten up) over having certain names but no one cares when it comes to girl's having boys names. Are we actually worried that our boys are more "sensitive" than our girls over such things?
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It's a sexist thing: it's perfectly fine for a girl to have a boy's name, because masculinity is respected. Feminitity isn't.
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Even more interestingly is that the only incident I have ever heard of where someone was actually beaten for their name was a girl-- named Randi, which is hardly a supermasculine name anyway. It was posted on the Lounge a while ago, and I remembered it when I decided to google "beaten up for name" earlier. Nothing else relevant appears.
And while the articles don't mention anything, I still think there was something else to it than "Yeah she had a boys name so we beat her up."
And while the articles don't mention anything, I still think there was something else to it than "Yeah she had a boys name so we beat her up."
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