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[trinityvixen]

I know I need not to be addicted to feminist blogs, but I totally am. I found out just how disgusting Wisconsin-ite patriarchs can be ("Well, I married my "date-rape" so it all worked out.") and fumed a good long while about that (without the ensuing LJ rant! I'm getting better!).

Then one or another blog linked to this, and there went my other lung for laughing.

The motto is "An online help for parents looking for that distinctive name that says 'I'm a Utah Mormon!'"

No, I don't think is a joke. Someone out there really wants to name their baby girl AndiOdette. I'm sliding back towards pissed off at the name "Ann-Toy" though. That's a tad too close to "Name your daughter like the sex object she is and ought to be!"

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[cubby-t-bear.livejournal.com]

The names are rather weird, but I think a good bit of distinctiveness would be helpful. We've got too many first name repetitions in our society ... it can make things confusing in group gatherings.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I don't disagree. We were working on names last night, my pregnant sister and I, and it wasn't easy

But these just take the cake. There is such a thing as being too distinctive.

[cubby-t-bear.livejournal.com]

It's a shame Nike got taken. That would have been a *great* name. Obscure mythological references always seemed interesting to me. Of course, there might not be a lot of mileage in naming somebody Atreus, or Antigone ...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough, we were looking at Norse God names last night (my brother-in-law is enamored of Loki and Thor, jokingly, I hope), and I liked Freya very much. I couldn't name my own children that because of the frequency of Freyas in various fandoms, but it's very pretty.

Prettier than the unpronounceable Sjofn, anyway.