unisex names!

[mamajoan]

Welcome my pal mishaslair to livejournal! Yay. :)

I now have two LJ friends named Misha, one male and one female. :) OK, no one else cares, but I find it amusing. :)

Someone on an email list said I should give my baby a gender-neutral name (like Chris, Leslie, Dana etc.). I have nothing against gender-neutral names as such, but I'm not going to choose a name *because* of that ... I used to want to have a son and name him Ashley, like in Gone with the Wind, but now I just think he would get teased for having a girly name. Alas. *ponders* Or maybe people would just think I named him for Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead? In which case it would violate my very firm "no fannish names" rule. Ah well.

As a longtime Army of Darkness/Evil Dead fan, I find it a little weird that now whenever I hear the term "evil dead" I think of Xander/Spike slash. On account of that's what Xander always calls Spike ... I don't even really like Xander/Spike. Xander's just too het, Scott Bakula fantasies notwithstanding.

I think that's enough stream-of-consciousness for one post. Later I'll post actual substance about the protest I attended yesterday. Possibly with pictures. I know you can't wait.

Comments

Naming rugrats

[cloudwatcher.livejournal.com]

I chose nice, simple five letter names for my children. Of course, they promptly renamed themselves with complicated magick or mythological names that I can't even spell.

I can understand the whole no fannish names stuff.

We're going to have a whole generation of kids named Teal'c, Londo, G'Kar, Spike, Buffy, and Willow.

I like Willow as a name, but not much chance of me getting to name any kids any time soon.

baby names

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

I remember rule # 11. Ignore all baby name suggestions provided by friends whose names start with J.

And seeing as it doesn't apply to me, I wonder if I might proffer an idea? Although you could easily dismiss it as too, er, meta.

I don't know how you'd apply this for a girl, but how does "Cicero" sound? :-)