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in reply to a message by yasmine
I also really would rather it were Lilit, for the sound of that ... it'd be neat if the Armenian name you mention had a different origin.
But the myths ... seem rather misinterpreted by people who like the name Lilith, to me. Everyone wants to interpret it as if she were some kind of rebel or grrl power figure, which assumes a default subjugated status of women. All I've read is the Wikipedia entry on Lilith, which refers to many different accounts of what Lilith supposedly meant before modern times, so I could be corrected - but approximately none of it is empowering to women. Lilith seems to exist to create or, at best, passively affirm an association between femaleness / female sexuality and demons, night, danger to men, and evil. Bleagh. Goth cat, totally.
I'm voting Lilith down, Leila and Liana up, for sexy name of the month.
But the myths ... seem rather misinterpreted by people who like the name Lilith, to me. Everyone wants to interpret it as if she were some kind of rebel or grrl power figure, which assumes a default subjugated status of women. All I've read is the Wikipedia entry on Lilith, which refers to many different accounts of what Lilith supposedly meant before modern times, so I could be corrected - but approximately none of it is empowering to women. Lilith seems to exist to create or, at best, passively affirm an association between femaleness / female sexuality and demons, night, danger to men, and evil. Bleagh. Goth cat, totally.
I'm voting Lilith down, Leila and Liana up, for sexy name of the month.
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