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Gilda · 03-17-2005, 10:42 AM

I have absolutely no problem with gender neutral names, and don't quite understand the objections to them here. Loren / Lauren, Jody, Chris, Marion / Marian, Jessie, Don / Dawn, Lynn, Leslie, Ashley, Kelly, Jean / Gene, etc.

Context will pretty clearly indicate the sex of person involved where it is relevant, and where it isn't the name doesn't need to indicate sex.

Ok on to my pet peeve: Theme names for twins. My mom wanted to name my sister and me with cute rhyming names like Carrie and Mary or a theme name like Faith and Hope. Ugh. Fortunately my father managed to intervene and we got Kathleen (Katie) and Gilda. I have cousins who are named Timothy and James. As kids they were Timmy and Jimmy, and that's still how everyone refers to them.

My SO has a traditional Korean girl's name that has about a dozen transliterations and nobody every gets it right, but she refuses to compromise and adopt an American name; it's part of who she is. She tells me I've never pronounced it right, and probably can't because it contains a couple of sounds that don't exist in English.

We've already agreed on girls' names for when we have a child--Anneke and Hannah--and one boy's name, Jake.

03-17-2005, 10:42 AM	#55 (permalink)
Gilda 32 flavors and then some Location: Out on a wire.	I have absolutely no problem with gender neutral names, and don't quite understand the objections to them here. Loren / Lauren, Jody, Chris, Marion / Marian, Jessie, Don / Dawn, Lynn, Leslie, Ashley, Kelly, Jean / Gene, etc. Context will pretty clearly indicate the sex of person involved where it is relevant, and where it isn't the name doesn't need to indicate sex. Ok on to my pet peeve: Theme names for twins. My mom wanted to name my sister and me with cute rhyming names like Carrie and Mary or a theme name like Faith and Hope. Ugh. Fortunately my father managed to intervene and we got Kathleen (Katie) and Gilda. I have cousins who are named Timothy and James. As kids they were Timmy and Jimmy, and that's still how everyone refers to them. My SO has a traditional Korean girl's name that has about a dozen transliterations and nobody every gets it right, but she refuses to compromise and adopt an American name; it's part of who she is. She tells me I've never pronounced it right, and probably can't because it contains a couple of sounds that don't exist in English. We've already agreed on girls' names for when we have a child--Anneke and Hannah--and one boy's name, Jake.