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in reply to a message by queenv
Golden ... calf, was the first thing I thought of.
I do get the pretty-shiny word-image from the name too, strongly enough that I don't immediately notice how much the word sounds like Gorden and Gulden (mustard) and olden and is basically ugly IMO. The idea of golden-ness, in reference to a person, feels smug and shallow to me, and that's probably the big thing about it that turns me off.
So, it's alright - it's about the same distance off my center, as Indigo or Lavender is... too far to overlook its problems, but it's not the worst name I ever heard.
Goldie and Golda have the same golden-ness problem that Golden has, and they also have an image attached to them for me, of overprivileged older women. I guess it works out that that is a stereotype. I've never met a Golda or a Goldie so it's just something I picked up, I don't know where.
- mirfak
I do get the pretty-shiny word-image from the name too, strongly enough that I don't immediately notice how much the word sounds like Gorden and Gulden (mustard) and olden and is basically ugly IMO. The idea of golden-ness, in reference to a person, feels smug and shallow to me, and that's probably the big thing about it that turns me off.
So, it's alright - it's about the same distance off my center, as Indigo or Lavender is... too far to overlook its problems, but it's not the worst name I ever heard.
Goldie and Golda have the same golden-ness problem that Golden has, and they also have an image attached to them for me, of overprivileged older women. I guess it works out that that is a stereotype. I've never met a Golda or a Goldie so it's just something I picked up, I don't know where.
- mirfak
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