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in reply to a message by MasterCiaraXo
I find it deeply tedious. The whole male-names-on-females movement has lost its fizz and sparkle, and makes me think of someone in the late 1960s who wakes up one morning and suddenly notices that everyone else's skirts are mid-thigh while hers are still just below the knee. She shortens them to just above the knee, and spends her days and nights telling anyone who'll listen how bold and daring she feels. Moi? Yes, carry right on, call a girl Vincent, or Garth, or Reginald: it's a fad and it'll blow over.
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We're not even talking about surname/unisex names even; this kind of thing is Hollywood fad, and also seems tailor-made for an angsty YA book. When I was a kid I liked this series of books by Constance C. Greene where the first one in the series was "A Girl Called Al." It was written in the early seventies, I think, and so the book title thing feels a bit cliched. The thing was, the girl called Al was actually Alexandra; one of the later books was called "Al-Exandra) the Great."
Belinda Hurmence took it one better with her book "A Girl Called Boy." My memory of it is very hazy but I do remember it was about a young black girl who somehow got time-traveled back into slavery days and was mistaken for a boy and addressed as Boy throughout.
We're not even talking about surname/unisex names even; this kind of thing is Hollywood fad, and also seems tailor-made for an angsty YA book. When I was a kid I liked this series of books by Constance C. Greene where the first one in the series was "A Girl Called Al." It was written in the early seventies, I think, and so the book title thing feels a bit cliched. The thing was, the girl called Al was actually Alexandra; one of the later books was called "Al-Exandra) the Great."
Belinda Hurmence took it one better with her book "A Girl Called Boy." My memory of it is very hazy but I do remember it was about a young black girl who somehow got time-traveled back into slavery days and was mistaken for a boy and addressed as Boy throughout.
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