DynamicSpirit
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Lindsay/Lindsey (another one where the pronunciation doesn't give the gender away, but the spelling usually does)
It seems Jess can be either - I know of a guy through work who is named Jess - not sure if it is short for anything in that case though!
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Val Kilmer, Val Doonican...It seems Jess can be either - I know of a guy through work who is named Jess - not sure if it is short for anything in that case though!
Though I never met them as it was before my time there, I have heard a story from work of a consultant they used named Val and got a surprise when Val visited the office and was a guy. I think he was American which may or may not have something to do with it?
Though I never met them as it was before my time there, I have heard a story from work of a consultant they used named Val and got a surprise when Val visited the office and was a guy. I think he was American which may or may not have something to do with it?
Kelly is another. I once worked somewhere with two people both named Kelly Kelly (matching forenames and surnames!) One was female and Kelly was her married name, but the other was male and presumably just had parents with either a cruel sense of humour or a lack of imagination!
I think society is more accepting of a woman with a traditionally masculine name than it is of a man with a traditionally feminine name. Not sure why, but there we go...
How are gender neutral names in any way a bad thing?And all this will only get worse with parents these days calling their kids whatever they want.
It's not particularly the actual reasoning behind it, it's about those people doing it:How are gender neutral names in any way a bad thing?
2) People who call a boy a name, which is clearly a girls name
In the present, it would bother me if my parents had named me "Mary" if I was a boy, or "John" if I was a girl.Does that matter? I'd like to think that it increasingly won't in the future. It's on the spectrum of...oh that's a boy's toy...or that's a girl's job.
Does that matter? I'd like to think that it increasingly won't in the future. It's on the spectrum of...oh that's a boy's toy...or that's a girl's job.
Way in the future, I suspect we'll drop the use of a surname all together.