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HelpRe: Julian as a feminine name
in reply to a message by Anneza
“Gender neutral” is a good thing imho. It means a person won’t be judged on gendered stereotypes based on their name alone. As someone with a gender neutral name, it honestly helps imho. Of course I’ve never really gotten the whole gender norms thing anyway so ...
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I agree that the idea of gender-neutral names is a good one, and we should aspire to have more gender-neutral names, but that's not really how it works right now. When a name becomes used more on girls and becomes seen as "feminized" it won't be used nearly as often on boys anymore. Just look at names like Ashley or even Morgan. If I named my son Ashley, he'd likely get made fun of for having a "girl's name." That's why I'm mostly opposed to using male names on girls, because the opposite doesn't happen nearly as often.
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The whole gender-stereotyping issue is becoming a non-event, as it always was for people, male and female, who felt strongly enough about it to take a stand or just to live their own lives in their own way. Trying to work out in advance what a new baby might or might not prefer or be stereotyped as seems to me over-ambitious. Very few such guesses will be meaningful anyway. But, we are all part of history and ignoring it in favour of a trend, any trend, on any subject, is worrying.
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