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HelpRe: WDYTO Juliet?
in reply to a message by Car
Shakesphere??
Sorry, you can't just say you value that it's "an old name with history" but resent its one major historical association. Names don't exist in the abstract. If you love it, love it fully, love everything about it - love how intertwined it is with this enormous archetypical image, intertwine yourself with that image, and then use the name. Or don't think about it very hard at all. But I don't think anyone who resents Juliet's association with, ahem, "Shakesphere," earns the right to use it - because at that point it almost becomes cultural appropriation, or de-appropriation.
Sorry, you can't just say you value that it's "an old name with history" but resent its one major historical association. Names don't exist in the abstract. If you love it, love it fully, love everything about it - love how intertwined it is with this enormous archetypical image, intertwine yourself with that image, and then use the name. Or don't think about it very hard at all. But I don't think anyone who resents Juliet's association with, ahem, "Shakesphere," earns the right to use it - because at that point it almost becomes cultural appropriation, or de-appropriation.
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