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Is anyone who refers to names by their genders as if they were people actually fully comfortable doing it? Or are you all just reaching out and toying with something you feel like you ought to like? Because I want to like the practice, but instead can find nothing in my heart but repulsion for it.
Just wondering. Maybe it's just me. Anyway I don't like Harriet. Something else I'm supposed to like, but simply can't stomach - and I wonder if I'd ask the same question about Harriet as I did the personifying of names. lol Does anyone actually think this name is really cute? Or does it just work so well in theory that they heartlessly employ the practice? Harriet, I suppose, I can understand liking. It's sharp, it's smirking a little, it's wearing nice clothes. (Here I am, personifying! - but without gender, so not really). It's absolutely unlike all of the disgusting names that are popular now. It doesn't need anything from them, doesn't need anyone to like it, it's pretty in its own important way. Hattie I cannot believe in. There is no way anyone could actually like this name. Is there? It's like cardboard. No, not cardboard: parched, flavorless cornbread. That's Hattie. Does anyone actually like that? Yes, it ought to be cute, but it's not. It's not nameist to not like Hattie. Nameism isn't a thing. We're allowed to dislike names. Let's all come together and comfort each other about our inability to enjoy this once perfectly good name, and move forward.
But I see that you've done that already. Good for you. The result is that you just have good taste, I guess. :P
You also don't need anyone to inanely point out that Harriet and Amy have different usage patterns. Once this nearsighted suspicion of large shapes is overcome, the world of naming gets much more interesting, indeed acquires new dimensions. Harriet reclaims Amy, hoisting it back to the place of sophistication it had toppled from.
I feel like I'm writing If Adorno Were A Namenerd right now. Actually that sounds like the most insanely fun project I can think of.
Just wondering. Maybe it's just me. Anyway I don't like Harriet. Something else I'm supposed to like, but simply can't stomach - and I wonder if I'd ask the same question about Harriet as I did the personifying of names. lol Does anyone actually think this name is really cute? Or does it just work so well in theory that they heartlessly employ the practice? Harriet, I suppose, I can understand liking. It's sharp, it's smirking a little, it's wearing nice clothes. (Here I am, personifying! - but without gender, so not really). It's absolutely unlike all of the disgusting names that are popular now. It doesn't need anything from them, doesn't need anyone to like it, it's pretty in its own important way. Hattie I cannot believe in. There is no way anyone could actually like this name. Is there? It's like cardboard. No, not cardboard: parched, flavorless cornbread. That's Hattie. Does anyone actually like that? Yes, it ought to be cute, but it's not. It's not nameist to not like Hattie. Nameism isn't a thing. We're allowed to dislike names. Let's all come together and comfort each other about our inability to enjoy this once perfectly good name, and move forward.
But I see that you've done that already. Good for you. The result is that you just have good taste, I guess. :P
You also don't need anyone to inanely point out that Harriet and Amy have different usage patterns. Once this nearsighted suspicion of large shapes is overcome, the world of naming gets much more interesting, indeed acquires new dimensions. Harriet reclaims Amy, hoisting it back to the place of sophistication it had toppled from.
I feel like I'm writing If Adorno Were A Namenerd right now. Actually that sounds like the most insanely fun project I can think of.
This message was edited 1/27/2013, 11:50 PM
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