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in reply to a message by peregrine
The female list overall feels very much fancier, fluffier and more flowery (literally) than the male list. Of course, names like Chloe, Violet, Willow, Aurora and Luna are already very popular now so it stands to reason.
I remember when Bruce Jenner became Caitlyn. It was cringey on many levels, one of them being, a sixty-something-year-old Caitlyn? Please. Better off to choose Katherine or Kathleen (which would have fit in with all the Kardashians, but maybe good sense did sort of prevail in that one area.)
I suspect a lot of name choices also have to do with the image one wants to project. We have a trans member of congress here in Delaware who goes by Sarah. Now maybe Sarah was the name of a favorite aunt or somebody, but I'd expect different name choices from someone who was hoping to get into politics versus someone who wanted to be a performer.
Ace just sounds like a dog's name to me. Or the kind of flirty come-on type name a woman in the 1940s might use on a sailor she's trying to pick up in a USO club or something. Ace, Tiger, Handsome, that kind of thing.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
I remember when Bruce Jenner became Caitlyn. It was cringey on many levels, one of them being, a sixty-something-year-old Caitlyn? Please. Better off to choose Katherine or Kathleen (which would have fit in with all the Kardashians, but maybe good sense did sort of prevail in that one area.)
I suspect a lot of name choices also have to do with the image one wants to project. We have a trans member of congress here in Delaware who goes by Sarah. Now maybe Sarah was the name of a favorite aunt or somebody, but I'd expect different name choices from someone who was hoping to get into politics versus someone who wanted to be a performer.
Ace just sounds like a dog's name to me. Or the kind of flirty come-on type name a woman in the 1940s might use on a sailor she's trying to pick up in a USO club or something. Ace, Tiger, Handsome, that kind of thing.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
