You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Legal name changes can be kind of tedious and drawn-out though.
Like, the actual name change itself is pretty painless, but then you have to go and update your records on virtually everything that has your name attached to it.
I feel like most people who say this are horribly racist.
Or grew up with an ill-fitting old man name like I did. It's fine now that I'm an adult, but in grade school it contributed to bullying.
Fair (I knew a Hezekiah in middle school) but usually when I see this line of reasoning it's with some shit about how you shouldn't name your kid Janelle because "it's ghetto".
There has actually been research that claims the more unique your name is, the less likely you're going to get a job, because screw people who even slightly complicate their resumes with their stupid stupid names.
As a guy whose name is a fairly obscure Swahili name, I hope to spit in research's face.
There has actually been research that claims the more unique your name is, the less likely you're going to get a job, because screw people who even slightly complicate their resumes with their stupid stupid names.
As a guy whose name is a fairly obscure Swahili name, I hope to spit in research's face.
GO FOR THE EYES, YARRSPIT, GO FOR THE EYES, YAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
There has actually been research that claims the more unique your name is, the less likely you're going to get a job, because screw people who even slightly complicate their resumes with their stupid stupid names.
As a guy whose name is a fairly obscure Swahili name, I hope to spit in research's face.
Your name is cool and alliterative, at the very least.
I feel like most people who say this are horribly racist.
Or grew up with an ill-fitting old man name like I did. It's fine now that I'm an adult, but in grade school it contributed to bullying.
Fair (I knew a Hezekiah in middle school) but usually when I see this line of reasoning it's with some shit about how you shouldn't name your kid Janelle because "it's ghetto".
Yeah, generally you're right, but it goes both ways. I feel like you're just as likely to get funny looks if your parents named you Habakkuk as if they named you Lafawndah because both, in their own way, mark the possessor as "different," whether in terms of class, ethnicity or religion.
Also, I have a slightly unusual last name that's caused real trouble and cost me real money before because people who handle paperwork with my name on it keep misspelling it. So the idea of giving your kid a weird name with a bunch of superfluous y's and apostrophes that everyone's going to have trouble with just because you're that desperate for them to be a special snowflake is...kind of awful.
im named emile ive been called emily countless times
so
let me tell you something: if you don't name your kid exactly John McAverageName people (who are dumb) will fuck up their name, that's just how it works
so it ultimately doesn't matter, name your kid whatever, unless it's an obvious reference to a piece of media many people will recognize
(Yes I know you are going by Jane now, which is also a nice name)
It's a good name, it's just not my name.
If I ever have a kid (god forbid) and it's a boy, I might name them Nathan.
I like my middle name (Micheal, spelled with the a and e in the reverse of their usual positions) a bit better but that's mostly because of family history (it was my dad's middle name, his dad's middle name, etc. for like 4 or 5 generations back)
Yea ok but that doesn't actually happen that much (I think the weirdest spelling I've ever seen personally is my cousin Devaughn's name).
People yelling about how you shouldn't name your kids "Tyrone" happens way more often ime.
Probably regional. You'd probably see obvious racist backlash against a name like that in Eastern or maybe the stickiest sticks of Southern Oregon, but on this side of the Cascades I doubt many people would bat an eye. Granted, Oregon has so few minorities in general that it wouldn't even be most people's first thought even if they were racist enough.
I usually associate terrible "insert random letters" or "fuck with phonetics" names (or God forbid the dreaded CamelCase) more with white hippies and soccer moms than anyone else. My family would usually have weekend brunch, and there were these two families whose kids were always shrieking their lungs out and their parents would be shouting their names trying to get them to stop (instead of just taking them outside until they calmed down, natch), and they were all absurd names. I was always thinking, you know, if you named me Trysson I'd probably have a lot to cry about too.
is there a corresponding stereotype for conservative dads?
not really no
i think this is because a lot of the nastiness associated with soccer moms is due to an upper-class entitlement which is married to a very short fuse due to the whole "is corralling a fuckton of kids thing"
the dads have the entitlement, but have a lower stress load
Well, i was thinking it could be because women who get angry about things are more commonly perceived as shrill, comical or acting up than their male counterparts.
But i dunno, i don't think we have 'soccer moms' over here, at least not as a recognizable group, so maybe it is the way you say it is over there.
imagine a customer who screams at you, calls the manager, and demands that the manager have you fired, because you like, didnt give her enough fries.
when anyone tries to call her on it, she turns on them, or storms off saying that she will never come back and will "file a formal complaint" that of course never materializes
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Anyway, I'm of the opinion that strange & life-inhibiting names should be given to fictional characters, not real people.
I am disappointed. That is my favorite stupid celebrity baby name.
I also like Nathaniel.
A high school crush of mine was named Natan, incidentally. I think he's a lawyer now.
Taylor and Michaela are the ones I would put forth as white soccer mom names
I knew a Taylor in high school. This was long before anyone had heard of Taylor Swift.
i've tried googling for definitions and it sounded very much like a sexist stereotype (possibly with a class component?)
they're a dime a dozen
this is still sounding like a stereotype to me
But i dunno, i don't think we have 'soccer moms' over here, at least not as a recognizable group, so maybe it is the way you say it is over there.
But not 'soccer moms'.