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HelpRe: Gender-bending Mythology/Biblical names?
in reply to a message by MasterCiaraXo
If the etymology is actually gender specific, I don't feel great about it.
If the usage has been heavy enough that people just conventionally assume male, I don't feel great about it.
If the usage (in living memory) has been too light for people (me!?) to have a strong association with gender, I think it's fine. Especially if they "sound like" names that are conventionally feminine. I don't care. I would probably not do it but it doesn't bother me.
Ezra, Micah, Asa, Adriel, Elisha.
Not Isaiah, Joshua, Elijah.
I don't think of Dylan, Zephyr, and Tristan as mythology names. Even though technically I guess they kinda are.
- mirfak
If the usage has been heavy enough that people just conventionally assume male, I don't feel great about it.
If the usage (in living memory) has been too light for people (me!?) to have a strong association with gender, I think it's fine. Especially if they "sound like" names that are conventionally feminine. I don't care. I would probably not do it but it doesn't bother me.
Ezra, Micah, Asa, Adriel, Elisha.
Not Isaiah, Joshua, Elijah.
I don't think of Dylan, Zephyr, and Tristan as mythology names. Even though technically I guess they kinda are.
- mirfak
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