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Help[Opinions] Re: Rowan
in reply to a message by queenv
"younger people today don't worry about masculinity in boy's names."
LMAO. Nor about femininity in girls' names! I don't want to call any younger people naive, but naming boys with names that are not conventionally perceived as specifically feminine, still IS worrying about masculinity in boys' names.
Anyway for years I thought Rowan was masculine (a name never used for girls, not a name that has "masculine" characteristics) - it never occurred to me that it could be unisex, until I started looking at names on the internet and noticed people were interested in it as a girl name. To me, Rowan on a woman still sounds deliberately un-feminine, sort of like Cedar (or Robin, for that matter, which I also don't feel sounds very feminine for some reason ... and Hazel as well, although that doesn't seem masculine either). I've gotten used to Rowan being unisex, though, and I don't like it less for a boy because of it being unisex.
Are there any names you think of as unisex, that you like for boys?
+ I know I could probably find out by searching the board. I'm being lazy.
- mirfak
LMAO. Nor about femininity in girls' names! I don't want to call any younger people naive, but naming boys with names that are not conventionally perceived as specifically feminine, still IS worrying about masculinity in boys' names.
Anyway for years I thought Rowan was masculine (a name never used for girls, not a name that has "masculine" characteristics) - it never occurred to me that it could be unisex, until I started looking at names on the internet and noticed people were interested in it as a girl name. To me, Rowan on a woman still sounds deliberately un-feminine, sort of like Cedar (or Robin, for that matter, which I also don't feel sounds very feminine for some reason ... and Hazel as well, although that doesn't seem masculine either). I've gotten used to Rowan being unisex, though, and I don't like it less for a boy because of it being unisex.
Are there any names you think of as unisex, that you like for boys?
+ I know I could probably find out by searching the board. I'm being lazy.
- mirfak
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