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HelpRe: Jemima
in reply to a message by Billina
Yeah, the "mammy" implications are too much for me to get into it.
I don't like my names to be reminiscent of racist imagery. Worse yet if I picked a name already knowing as much.
I remember once I objected to a hypothetical sibset Joseph and Magda because it was the name of Joseph Goebbels and his wife. People replied that surely no one would think of this and people don't know that, etc. Well, I thought it. I'm a person of average intelligence and curiosity, so if it's a fact that I can recall I can't be the only one. I think similarly about the connotations with Jemima; maybe it doesn't occur to everyone, but it does to enough people that I wouldn't go there.
"He was healthy to the point of heathendom and he acknowledged no power but his own."
Joseph Roth, Hotel Savoy
I don't like my names to be reminiscent of racist imagery. Worse yet if I picked a name already knowing as much.
I remember once I objected to a hypothetical sibset Joseph and Magda because it was the name of Joseph Goebbels and his wife. People replied that surely no one would think of this and people don't know that, etc. Well, I thought it. I'm a person of average intelligence and curiosity, so if it's a fact that I can recall I can't be the only one. I think similarly about the connotations with Jemima; maybe it doesn't occur to everyone, but it does to enough people that I wouldn't go there.
Joseph Roth, Hotel Savoy
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