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I remember reading a novel years ago called "The Women's Room". It was a feminist novel, and while I consider myself to be a feminist and refuse to shy away from the word because it has some negative connotations in the minds of many people, I must admit that this novel was on the extreme side and might be an example of how the word came to have a negative connotation. It detailed the lives of several women who were young, married, bearing and raising children in the 1950s, and its theme was that every single one of them was miserable being a housewife and mother.

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What does this have to do with the name Fleur, you ask? Well, one of the children of one of the women in the book was named Fleur. I'd never heard it before and it struck me as unbearably silly. "Really?", I was asking myself. "Has anyone anywhere ever really named their daughter Fleur? Isn't that the French word for flower? Would you name your kid Flower? Then why name her Fleur?"

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It's been years but I still find it unbearably silly.