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what are your favorite names?
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Why are you being so hostile??? I never ever said I was going to have a kid and use their name as a political statement, I don't even want kids, this thread is about names for fictional characters lol. I never once mentioned kids. I still don't believe in the gendering of names, but I think there are ways that we can fight gender stereotypes without using children as political statements.
TBH it seems like I'm getting picked on and having my words misread intentionally so I think I'm gonna stop replying after this.
I'm not picking on you, or being hostile and I can't intentionally misread something; misreading something is accidental. I was making a good point about my views vs yours, not cussing you out or taking cheap shots at you and calling you names. Being able to debate things is great, as it opens our eyes to new viewpoints and ideas which we can choose to listen to or not. I heard yours, you heard mine. Great.
My point, that you seemed to have missed, was that when you try to make things that aren't gender neutral into gender neutral, it doesn't work, and maybe I should have illustrated that without bringing kids into it. You said that names should be gender neutral, and I assumed that you meant names in general, rather than just the names of fictional characters (correct me if I'm wrong). I don't feel that names should be gender neutral because like male and female names, men and women are inherently different, and rather than trying to lump us together and make us the same for the sake of equality, and eliminating the "unnecessary rules" you talked about, we should celebrate our differences and be proud of them. I'm a girl. I like being a girl, being a girl is awesome besides the fact that I have periods. I have the ability to bring life into existence and I have the same wonderful nurturing instincts that women before me have had that allowed our species to survive for as long as it has.
Back to what I was saying, men and women are different, and it's okay to have names that are different. We can have the same rights, but we do not have to have the same names, wear the same clothes, have the same jobs or live our lives in exactly the same manner to be equal (the last 3 points I mentioned are relevant more to the culture we live in, rather than relevant to what you said, which I feel the need to throw out there because people love to discredit what others say by saying "I didn't say that").
Celestefey
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Names that I like:
Sapphire, Elizabeth, Olivia, Rose, Grace, and Robyn.
(All female names lmao. I just don't really like many boy names tbh...)
Sapphire, Elizabeth, Olivia, Rose, Grace, and Robyn.
(All female names lmao. I just don't really like many boy names tbh...)
AquaStrudel
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Girls: Cynthia, Lucia, Lucille, Celeste, Claire, Lyra
Boys: Sebastian, Mordecai, Cecil, Milo, Aaron, Cyrus
Boys: Sebastian, Mordecai, Cecil, Milo, Aaron, Cyrus
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I have decided, as stated in my last post, to not continue with this because it's not going anywhere and you are kind of just choosing to debate me over nothing in a way that is very hostile, but I just wanted to throw in a reminder that being a girl and having periods have nothing to do with each other, as transgender girls do not have periods, and many transgender men or nonbinary people do, along with the fact that some cisgender girls still don't because of health problems. Just a little quick reminder!!
You did, in fact, continue the conversation by replying to me. Is pointing that fact out hostile, too? I haven't insulted you, said anything mean about you, I haven't twisted your words, put words in your mouth or anything like that, and I had no intention of being hostile or aggressive.
However. Being a girl and having periods have nothing to do with each other?! What??? They quite obviously do from a biological standpoint. Men don't have periods. Women do. Transgender women are physically different from women who were born women and anyone that isn't afraid of what hateful thing social just warriors will call them for stating facts will agree with that. Any doctor will agree with that. Women's bodies naturally produce estrogen without shots or pills, we have a uterus, ovaries, eggs and fallopian tubes that we're born with, all of which play a role in periods, aka our reproductive cycle and which physically determine our female gender.
Before someone calls me a trans-hater or a transphobe, no, I don't have anything against transgender people, nor do I have a phobia of them. There's scientific evidence as to why someone feels out of place in their own body, and that has to do, in part, with the hormones they're exposed to in the womb. All embryos are genderless until they're exposed to their first dose of either estrogen or testosterone, which then tells the embryo's body which reproductive parts to form. Typically, the embryo receives another dose of the same hormone later to assist in further development. In the case of someone who doesn't identify with their own body, it's likely that they were exposed to a dose of both hormones in the womb, where their biological confusion began. I don't hate, or even dislike trans people (I helped my trans friend pick out her new girl name for f**k sake), but at the same time, we can't just toss aside facts and say that having periods has nothing to do with being a girl, and that genitalia doesn't define gender for fear of offending people. Genitalia does define gender (which is why sex-change operations exist in the first place). It does not, however, define which gender you identify with best or how you can live your life.
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im sorry but who brought gender into this.
ANYWAY i thought of more english/guy names i like which are Kian, Marc and Trevor. they just sound so??? right?? idk
ANYWAY i thought of more english/guy names i like which are Kian, Marc and Trevor. they just sound so??? right?? idk
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you stole one of my names you pile of horse poop
helloxcutiee
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Girls: Hayley, Skylar, Makayla, Mackenzie, Alex, Erin.
Boys: Casey, Landon, Zander, Alec, Aiden, Ethan.
Boys: Casey, Landon, Zander, Alec, Aiden, Ethan.
RainbowCherry
Bus Thanker
Girls: Noire, Hannah, Nieve, Eve, Lilith and Eileen
Boys: Martin, Bobby-Billing-Bankingson, Isaac, Ludwig and Jay.
Boys: Martin, Bobby-Billing-Bankingson, Isaac, Ludwig and Jay.
Mr. Cat
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What? No. I thought my name was pretty convenient because I wanted to be a boy when I was a kid. You misread. It was not cool, I got made fun of hardcore for dressing like a boy and being into boy things. (Assuming you didn't read my first posts, I'm a female with a boy's name.)
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Your post reminded me I forgot a name.
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