Message: ":(" - Behind the Name

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[Opinions] :(

by Mar (X-Mar)

3/6/2018, 12:12 PM

A little sparkle of hope I had just died :(

Would've been rather refreshing to have Virginia as a MN for a boy. I dislike the whole: "let's name our girls with boys names, but heaven forbid we should give our son a girls name, even as a MN"-type thing that's going on...

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- Cayden (theparkite) +2

3/6/2018, 1:41 PM

I agree. If "boys'" names are workable on girls, why can't "girls'" names be used on boys? It seems kind of patriarchal to me.

- queenv +1

3/6/2018, 4:07 PM

It is, but I take that as more of a reason to avoid using boys' names on girls than a reason to use them.

- Wisteria (Tawnee)

3/8/2018, 8:41 AM

Exactly. You're only feeding into the sexist double standard by giving girls boys' names when it's still taboo to do the opposite.

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