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Help[Opinions] Re: Coming from someone who was often teased about her name...
in reply to a message by Ceridwen
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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