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in reply to a message by Ludwig
I guess he does not think women benefit from having "winner" names, the way men do? Beckett as a namesake has at least a little gravitas. It boggles me that he thought Wednesday would age any better than Seven. The character was so named presumably because she was "full of woe." The satire is in the banality of it ... as a namesake, it's a joke that backfires. IMHO
Oh, well, her name will get away from him and his conceits, and it's not all that bad, it's pop culture and "cool," and I can feel that.
Oh, well, her name will get away from him and his conceits, and it's not all that bad, it's pop culture and "cool," and I can feel that.
This message was edited 2/15/2012, 12:59 AM
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Hah I think the Stan/Steve thing was more tongue in cheek than I portrayed it.
Yeah I didn't quite follow the Seven logic either. He said it would be cool as a baby, as a kid, as a teenager, as an adult... but as an old lady? "Kind of cool!" I volunteered. Evidently he didn't agree.
I did remark upon how much more conservative the two boys' choices were than the girls' ones. Ian was especially surprising and kind of disappointing, given that it came from his super-feminist wife! She's in tune to all kind of sexism coded in music and scholarship. I guess maybe it does take a namenerd to see that something's a little off about such a solid, conservative boy name next to all of those fanciful girls names. But she probably had her reasons...
Anyway his response to my remarking was to shrug and almost shudder and say that he really hadn't wanted a boy anyway. We didn't talk about it...
I think Wednesday, aside from its self-conscious weirdness (which is to say phonetically, basically), is actually pretty versatile, and would probably oppress a girl who wanted to be normal no less than Ian would oppress a boy who wanted to be weird. But I do think they're fortunate in that their daughter likes her name fine and seems to be quirky and creative.
Yeah I didn't quite follow the Seven logic either. He said it would be cool as a baby, as a kid, as a teenager, as an adult... but as an old lady? "Kind of cool!" I volunteered. Evidently he didn't agree.
I did remark upon how much more conservative the two boys' choices were than the girls' ones. Ian was especially surprising and kind of disappointing, given that it came from his super-feminist wife! She's in tune to all kind of sexism coded in music and scholarship. I guess maybe it does take a namenerd to see that something's a little off about such a solid, conservative boy name next to all of those fanciful girls names. But she probably had her reasons...
Anyway his response to my remarking was to shrug and almost shudder and say that he really hadn't wanted a boy anyway. We didn't talk about it...
I think Wednesday, aside from its self-conscious weirdness (which is to say phonetically, basically), is actually pretty versatile, and would probably oppress a girl who wanted to be normal no less than Ian would oppress a boy who wanted to be weird. But I do think they're fortunate in that their daughter likes her name fine and seems to be quirky and creative.
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