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Help[Opinions] Re: Hazel on a Boy
in reply to a message by Zina
I adore the Umbrella Academy character, but I don’t love his name. How that teddy bear of a man came to be an assassin is a backstory spinoff I need to see!
We spent a long time suppressing and not celebrating gentle or creative traits, typically associated with femininity, and it’s culminated in people giving their girls boys’ names in order to associate them with forceful traits. I hate that. But I also don’t want to see it go the other way, where any aggression, stoicism or other “masculine” traits are seen as a negative and people start giving their boys girls’ names in a bid to mold their personality or the way the world sees them We should embrace all positive traits, in varying quantities, in everyone.
If names were genuinely free from being a weather vane for this I’d probably be a lot more open to names transitioning. It just seems like a statement I don’t want to get behind. Some cultures have scores of great unisex names and I’m all for that.
We spent a long time suppressing and not celebrating gentle or creative traits, typically associated with femininity, and it’s culminated in people giving their girls boys’ names in order to associate them with forceful traits. I hate that. But I also don’t want to see it go the other way, where any aggression, stoicism or other “masculine” traits are seen as a negative and people start giving their boys girls’ names in a bid to mold their personality or the way the world sees them We should embrace all positive traits, in varying quantities, in everyone.
If names were genuinely free from being a weather vane for this I’d probably be a lot more open to names transitioning. It just seems like a statement I don’t want to get behind. Some cultures have scores of great unisex names and I’m all for that.
This message was edited 8/3/2020, 4:20 AM
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