Does a kid do better with a "good" name or a "bad" name?

[Lemmingwise]

The thing with naming your kid Adolf is it doesn't mean he'll ”face the difficulties BIPOC face” or whatever when he wants a job, it means that the only people who'll hire Adolf are going to be cool with Nazis. I hope whoever wrote this post likes the thought of her son pulling pints in a dive bar run by skinheads.

Being treated like a nazi as jokes sometimes also might mean he'll be repelled from leftist social groups and as a result develop a social circle more openminded or right leaning.

She's sowing a lot of chaos in their future relationship.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

This seems like a completely ass-backwards way of forcing your child to experience the lived experiences of POCs or whatever. Why not just name him Le'Genius or something so people make assumptions and then learn a Very Important Lesson about race at the end or something? Ignoring the galaxy brained idiocy of all this in the first place.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

This seems like a completely ass-backwards way of forcing your child to experience the lived experiences of POCs or whatever. Why not just name him Le'Genius or something so people make assumptions and then learn a Very Important Lesson about race at the end or something? Ignoring the galaxy brained idiocy of all this in the first place.

Even then, and maybe this is just because I'm a Britbong, names like that don't strike me as black names - they seem more chavvy than anything. Funnily enough, most black people I know have pretty normal first names whereas the only names I've seen that made me think ”Jesus wept, what was her mum smoking” came from middle-class white wine mums.

 

[Chan Buddhism]

I don't know if this is what you're talking about or not, but ever since I went to school with 6+ people named Craig, all of which were stereotypical nerds, I've been unusually aware of how names generally seem to pigeon hole people into roles. Every Duke I've known was a jock, the Justins assholes, Nates druggies, etc.

Dude what about Justinrpg

But for real, giving your kid an ethnic variant of a regular name is really neat, but the average american is way too much of a sped to ever spell it correctly. I have one of these and always lose my shit over this. It's not even a hard name.

Name your kid M'aiq just to be safe.

 

[protomartyr]

As an Anglo you’ve got a selection of normal names which you probably shouldn’t deviate from if you want your kid to have a normal life. Monarchs and saints. James, William, Harold/Harry, George, Paul, etc. I don’t see why you’d want to give your kids weird names and poison the well for their future peers.

I know naming things is fun. So buy Crusader Kings 3 and give your digital children kooky names. Leave the real ones out of it.

 

[Real Fakeman]

The true injustice here is that the name Joseph does not have the same stigma that Adolf does.

 

[ShortBusDriver]

The true injustice here is that the name Joseph does not have the same stigma that Adolf does.