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Help[Opinions] Re: Desiree
in reply to a message by Fictionfan861
I really like it. I think it has a great meaning. Very sweet.
A little too sweet for my own taste, but it might not be in some situations.
I don't like alternate spellings of it. But I usually assume they're done to prevent pronunciation errors, and to distance the name from the connotations of the word "desire." It's unfortunate that people are so well trained, to interpret the names of women in the most sexualizing way available to the imagination, scanning for suggestions of "looseness." But it happens, it even happens to me sometimes. It happens often enough that I'd hesitate to use the name, even if I otherwise desired to use it. When I meet a Desiree, though, I certainly don't make any assumptions about her occupation or her sexual morality based on her name.
- mirfak
A little too sweet for my own taste, but it might not be in some situations.
I don't like alternate spellings of it. But I usually assume they're done to prevent pronunciation errors, and to distance the name from the connotations of the word "desire." It's unfortunate that people are so well trained, to interpret the names of women in the most sexualizing way available to the imagination, scanning for suggestions of "looseness." But it happens, it even happens to me sometimes. It happens often enough that I'd hesitate to use the name, even if I otherwise desired to use it. When I meet a Desiree, though, I certainly don't make any assumptions about her occupation or her sexual morality based on her name.
- mirfak
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