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HelpRe: James on Girls
in reply to a message by LMS
I don't find James to be a terribly masculine seeming name in the first place. Although I do expect a James to be a guy. And there's always Jamie, which I think is a good name on either sex.
I dunno, it's nmsaa but I don't have a problem with that particular trend. I agree with armyofbono - there are names that are masculine because they're common or typical guynames, and then there are old man names and butch names - and I object a lot more to the latter being used on females.
I guess my negative response to cross-gender naming depends more on my perception of a name itself, than on my experience of the gender of the people I've seen named it. Once you know someone's gender, the gender of their name as a name kinda stops mattering - it's mainly when I perceive a name as especially gender-y, and have a hard time imagining it more neutrally, that the clash will annoy me.
- mirfak
I dunno, it's nmsaa but I don't have a problem with that particular trend. I agree with armyofbono - there are names that are masculine because they're common or typical guynames, and then there are old man names and butch names - and I object a lot more to the latter being used on females.
I guess my negative response to cross-gender naming depends more on my perception of a name itself, than on my experience of the gender of the people I've seen named it. Once you know someone's gender, the gender of their name as a name kinda stops mattering - it's mainly when I perceive a name as especially gender-y, and have a hard time imagining it more neutrally, that the clash will annoy me.
- mirfak
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