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Helpit's football season again ...
And I've posted the names of football players before, names like De-Brickashaw, Barkevious, and my favorite, Haloti Ngata (pronounce it Ha-LOH-Tee NAH-Tah; isn't it fun to say?) But now I think I've seen it all.
A player, indisputably male, is named Christine Lynn Michael. Michael being his last name.
Apparently his mother wanted a girl. Christine is pronounced Kristen, which would be ridiculous even if he was a girl.
Is it any wonder he plays football? Thanks a lot, Mom. Now poor Anne Rice (born Howard) and Barack Obama's mother (born Stanley Ann) can know it isn't just girls who disappoint their parents.
A player, indisputably male, is named Christine Lynn Michael. Michael being his last name.
Apparently his mother wanted a girl. Christine is pronounced Kristen, which would be ridiculous even if he was a girl.
Is it any wonder he plays football? Thanks a lot, Mom. Now poor Anne Rice (born Howard) and Barack Obama's mother (born Stanley Ann) can know it isn't just girls who disappoint their parents.
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Well, he never changed it, and he's a professional football player. In spite of the great odds against it, this evidently turned out well.
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he certainly has an outlet for any frustrations he might have
boom
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I was thinking it might be pronounced like Christen :) But, really, what about Christine is so feminine? There are a fair few -ine names that are used for males, so I don't really see it as an overly feminine suffix.
I'm sure this guy doesn't mind his name, and he almost likely didn't choose his career based on it as a way of compensating, like Rox suggested. What's there to compensate, anyway?
I'm sure this guy doesn't mind his name, and he almost likely didn't choose his career based on it as a way of compensating, like Rox suggested. What's there to compensate, anyway?
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I guess no name is really inherently overtly feminine or masculine - it's society and current culture that puts that label on. Like Susan - that name doesn't even have any of the distinctive "this is for girls" elements in it: no elle, ella, ette, ina, etc. But you'd never see the name "Susan" and think "I wonder if that person is a boy or a girl". Christine is the same sort of name. At least, in my experience.
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I would love to know how these things happen. Is he like, an NFL or college player? Do people ...say anything about it? Like announcers or whatever? Or do they try really hard to not notice a man is named Christine?
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he's NFL
A Seattle Seahawk. As for what other people's reactions are, well, I can't speak for anybody else but I'd be pretty reluctant to verbally harass a pro football player. Which for all we know might have been a big part of his chosen career.
A Seattle Seahawk. As for what other people's reactions are, well, I can't speak for anybody else but I'd be pretty reluctant to verbally harass a pro football player. Which for all we know might have been a big part of his chosen career.
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