Do You Consider Yourself A Feminist?: Why Or Why Not?

[PRgal]

Does anyone notice that girls (late GenZ and Alpha, anyway) are more likely to have odd/creative spellings of names/creative names (think Makinsleigh or something weird like that) versus boys?  Personally, I don't think it does them any favours.  It's not really a name I can take seriously versus a Sarah or Katherine.  I went from Cindy to Cynthia for a reason - even if people from my background who live back in the old country might have more trouble pronouncing it.  Prime Minister Mackinsleigh Leung just doesn't have the same seriousness as Prime Minister Katherine Leung (though East Asians don't seem to go for the creative name thing as often.  You don't want to bring shame to the family).

[Dimity]

23 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

Lol, selective indignation.

A recurring theme on Big Bang Theory was referencing women's periods. Usually  "ooh gross" kind of comments.  It was so ridiculous and I gritted my teeth every time this happened but I am going to assume the writers were reflecting the way a lot of adult men feel about it.  Bunch of overgrown middle schoolers.

[Spartan Girl]

19 minutes ago, Dimity said:

A recurring theme on Big Bang Theory was referencing women's periods. Usually  "ooh gross" kind of comments.  It was so ridiculous and I gritted my teeth every time this happened but I am going to assume the writers were reflecting the way a lot of adult men feel about it.  Bunch of overgrown middle schoolers.

I am so over period jokes. They mock us for being grossed out for references about certain male bodily functions, but when it comes to something we have to deal with every month, they act like it’s nauseating.

[SoMuchTV]

4 hours ago, PRgal said:

Does anyone notice that girls (late GenZ and Alpha, anyway) are more likely to have odd/creative spellings of names/creative names (think Makinsleigh or something weird like that) versus boys? 

I’m not sure if I’m seeing it’s more common in girls than in boys but I’m not sure it’s just recent. I have two daughters born in the 1990s and I remember in one of their yearbooks there were three girls’ photos in a row, each with a different spelling of “Ashley”. And I ran across a few  Jaysons and Bryces from that same generation. 

I am curious, though. I’m not familiar with any common name that’s creatively spelled “Makinsleigh”. 

[PRgal]

9 minutes ago, SoMuchTV said:

I’m not sure if I’m seeing it’s more common in girls than in boys but I’m not sure it’s just recent. I have two daughters born in the 1990s and I remember in one of their yearbooks there were three girls’ photos in a row, each with a different spelling of “Ashley”. And I ran across a few  Jaysons and Bryces from that same generation. 

I am curious, though. I’m not familiar with any common name that’s creatively spelled “Makinsleigh”. 

It's an exaggeration of a super-creative name.  There are one or two kids with weird names at my son's school, but not too many.  

[meep.meep]

5 hours ago, PRgal said:

Does anyone notice that girls (late GenZ and Alpha, anyway) are more likely to have odd/creative spellings of names/creative names (think Makinsleigh or something weird like that) versus boys?  Personally, I don't think it does them any favours.  It's not really a name I can take seriously versus a Sarah or Katherine.  I went from Cindy to Cynthia for a reason - even if people from my background who live back in the old country might have more trouble pronouncing it.  Prime Minister Mackinsleigh Leung just doesn't have the same seriousness as Prime Minister Katherine Leung (though East Asians don't seem to go for the creative name thing as often.  You don't want to bring shame to the family).

On reddit it's called a Trajedeigh

Apparently expectant parents are now into coming up with the most unique spelling possible for their bundles of joy.  Lots of extra letters, lots of silent letters, and apostrophes.

Think Wrestlyn  or Allija or J'Zaelyn or whatever Musk named his kids.

I'm thankful to not be a kindergarten teacher.  They do post the best ones.

[Dimity]

2 minutes ago, meep.meep said:

I'm thankful to not be a kindergarten teacher.  They do post the best ones.

During Covid there was a funny video made by a teacher talking about the names that would be in the kindergarten class 5 years after the pandemic.  Coronina, Covidia, Purell and the like.

[Absolom]

We should be getting COVID kids in TK this fall.  

[PRgal]

32 minutes ago, Absolom said:

We should be getting COVID kids in TK this fall.  

In Ontario, the 2020 babies started JK (Junior Kindergarten) last fall.  They're going into SK this year.  Cut off is by calendar year here.  The kids MOST affected by the pandemic are those born between 2017-2019 - they spent their most formative years, the years they should be learning how to interact with peers in playgroups/caregiver/child groups in isolation.  Kids like my son (he was about 1 1/2 when the lockdown started, had ZERO in-person interaction with other kids and was diagnosed as "expressively delayed" because he was barely speaking at 2 1/2.  He didn't even know HOW to play with other kids when he started preschool).  

[Absolom]

1 hour ago, PRgal said:

n Ontario, the 2020 babies started JK (Junior Kindergarten) last fall.  They're going into SK this year.  Cut off is by calendar year here.  The kids MOST affected by the pandemic are those born between 2017-2019 - they spent their most formative years, the years they should be learning how to interact with peers in playgroups/caregiver/child groups in isolation.  Kids like my son (he was about 1 1/2 when the lockdown started, had ZERO in-person interaction with other kids and was diagnosed as "expressively delayed" because he was barely speaking at 2 1/2.  He didn't even know HOW to play with other kids when he started preschool). 

The prior poster was talking about COVID names like Covidia or Purelle not the affect on the children.  That's why kids wouldn't have been born until fall or later that had been conceived just before or early in COVID where people might think of those names.  Many if not most US schools have the cut off around September 1.  So children born after 9/1/2000 would have been in TK or transitional kindergarten this last year and will begin kindergarten this fall.  

[chitowngirl]

I work in a school district and you would not believe some of name spellings I run across. I sometimes have to pronounce them out loud to myself and realize it’s just a cr8tive spelling of a common name. And I never can assume gender based on a name. 

[peacheslatour]