The Saga Continues: The rise of gender-neutral baby names

[Socrates]

So the goal is for us to be an entire society of "Pat"s? Good grief. No wonder SNL isn't funny any more. How do you skewer anything when real life is so absurd?

 

[captain_shane]

My kid is getting a super masculine name, something like Brock or Titus.

 

[Sombro]

Socially over-sensitive parents foisting their insecurities on their unsuspecting offspring, in their ovine desperation to be perceived as "unique."

Stick to family names — or those you are proud enough/have earned the right to carry the name.

(My dad had an uncle Allison — kid who dropped out of 11th grade to fight in WWI — was gassed and died by age 32 — am sure he's spinning in his grave right now.)

 

[LeBeau]

Obligatory post:

 

[NO_LIMIT_CRACKA]

I didn't read the full article because I'm sure it's written by an idiot who interviewed morons. I read the bolded parts, though - an invaluable quality of members posting articles on this forum.

What I did see was a "claiming" of gender neutral names. However, I didn't see a lot of championing the naming of boys Brittany or Kimberly or Megan. Instead, it was boys' names being given to girls. This is just another instance of something so seemingly simple and meaningless yet incapable of remaining masculine. The message is becoming clear, nothing can be associated with only maleness; save violence, aggression, savagery, perversion, corruption, and deception.

This seems to be the way of how they're creating "gender neutral names": take questionable boys' names and give them to girls, thereby forcing society at large to get used to the fact that "huh, so I guess this name is also given to girls then? ok I see".

This has already happened to names like Hunter, Taylor, Carter etc. It's ridiculous, how are you calling a girl Hunter, Sawyer, Jordan, Terry or Emerson?! At this point in time the names get so wacky that it's like reading a bad sci-fi novel and what goofy names some nerd thinks up. I bet at some point in life, when a girl gets adressed with "Soo, Sawyer Johnson then. Ok Mr. Johnson, we're all set" she'll scream out "IT'S MRS. JOHNSON, DON'T PRESUME TO KNOW MY GENDER FROM MY NAME YOU BIGOT! UUUUGH I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE MISGENDER ME"

The English language is doomed with its names, it's time to dig around in the past or go East for proper male names: Ragnarr, Vladislav, Dimitri, Ivor, Zoran, James, Castor, Max

 

[Akula]

Well I think I'm going with Ghengis, Taras or Napoleon for my boy!

 

[Vacancier Permanent]

For me, my son's name will be one of the following:
Cesar, Oscar, Edison or a bad ass and sexy Italian name like Vincenzo, Lorenzo, Giampaolo, Giacomo, Giovanni. Aleksander would be cool too and Vladimir would be a good choice too.

For my daughter(s), very feminine name like...haven't thought about them. Will think when the time comes.

 

[Nonpareil]

Amari is the winner so far, with a 56 percent increase for girls and 22 percent for boys compared with last year. On her (and his) heels: Karter, more popular with girls; Phoenix, used most often still for boys; Quinn, Reese, River, Rory, Rowan, Sawyer, and Taylor.

Chances are if you have a daughter and you let your wife name her name her any of these bullshit 'unisex names' like Karter, River, Taylor, Addison or Morgan she'll shortly be on her knees in front of Amari, and not on the heels behind Amari...