Why isn't namechanging more common among social circles?

[Colon capital V]

Outside of troondom, why don't more lefties go out of their way to change their name into something they deem more fitting? I mean the name they were given was always by their parents, they never had a choice. So you'd think they'd push for more individual self-naming rather than be given one by someone else, but it's not as common as far as I can see, so what gives?

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

It's easier to bitch on twitter than to fill out a paper to make it happen

 

[HullDown]

Once all the Daenerys and Reys and Katniss of the past ten years grow up, it will become common. You are just thinking ahead.

 

[Lone MacReady]

Lots of (((leftists))) already do, like turning the name Kavinsky into Brooks, before entering Hollywood.

 

[Bonesjones]

In normal society changing your name outside of marriage is evidence you are probably running from something, so you shouldn't be trusted.

 

[Skitarii]

They used to. Would you believe that Stalin, Trotsky and Lenin weren't their actual names? I'm pretty sure you've heard of a certain Malcolm X or a Muhammad Ali too

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

So you'd think they'd push for more individual self-naming rather than be given one by someone else, but it's not as common as far as I can see, so what gives?

Those types are more interested in self-harming than self-naming themselves. Much like their gripes, they have no real convictions on anything as long as Daddy Government tells them it’s okay to do so.

 

[Stan]

Chris-Chan changed his name from 'Christopher" to 'Christian' at age 6, apparently anticipating the popularity of 50 Shades.
ETA: Milo Yiannopoulous changed his surname, which used to be 'Hanrahan', in middle school because of a custody dispute with his parents.

 

[Just A Butt]

I changed my name a couple times. It’s super easy.

 

[Gamercat]

because it's more fun to bitch and whine then actually do it

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It's pointless and annoying for everyone around you

 

[The Real Me]

I feel it's very disrespectful towards your parents. Only criminals and people with poor parental relations change their names.

 

[Colon capital V]

I feel it's very disrespectful towards your parents. Only criminals and people with poor parental relations change their names.

Which already makes up a good majority of progressives and yet they don't.

 

[fatcock burgerking]

It's a gay indicator you have no friends to change your own name. That's why, in days long past, you'd get made fun of if you came up with your own nickname. If a non-tranny changes their name, that just means they're too young to remember what a good ol' fashioned bullying session felt like.

 

[$5.3 Million Dollars]

I've seen them treat in-game names and screen names on social media in the same vein with constantly changing and demanding others keep up even if they're not troons, but most are not going to go the extra mile for anything that would require them to interact with another human being face to face.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

Chris-Chan changed his name from 'Christopher" to 'Christian' at age 6, apparently anticipating the popularity of 50 Shades.

But Chris-Chan was a Republican, back when he first changed his name. Chris-Chan wouldn't become a leftoid, until he started trooning-out

 

[Pissmaster]

Its been very historically common to change your name to better fit within whichever culture you're moving into. A lot of Americans have anglicized names after their ancestors moved here. Even in pop culture, it used to be a given that foreign entertainment would be westernized, with Christendom names for characters 'n' shieet. That doesn't really happen much, anymore. We're just at an unusual point in time where foreigners show up with gay and retarded names and they think our names are gay and retarded and we just have to learn each other's names as-is.

This is also an unusual point in time where really horrible people change their name, and deem it a great offense to ever refer to someone by their former name. Like they're always hiding something.

 

[AnnLurker]

The real reason, my questioning friend, is because changing your name is one of the hardest things to do in a legal sense.
You need to declare a reason for doing so, go to court, have your old name and new name published in the local paper, pay a fuckton of cash up front and then also have absolutely no felonies and pass several background checks. Fail at any of these and no name change