Edit: alt-text: Reddit post in r/TrueOffMyChest
Title: my friend just transitioned but I found out she’s naming herself Mildred. I wanna be supportive but, fucking Mildred?
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I am and will always be an ally. Mildred though. 😬
I gotta agree with the post. Millie would be a cute alternative Mildred. The name reminds me of mildew.
Mildew with a soupçon of dread
It reminds me of an angry goose
Is this the Mildred in question?
Yup. She’s a maneater.
#Girlboss
I know your instance name is short for solarpunk but i can’t help but read it as slurpunk
Just like those Slut Life stickers morons put on their cars.
She just like me fr
I heard blighttown is great for going on a trip as a single guy this time of the year.
Enough talk about trans rights, it’s time to talk about trans wrongs /s
But first, let’s discuss the right and wrong trans wrongs.
The right trans wrongs: coming from a place of deep respect for you as a friend, Mildred is not the right name for you
The wrong trans wrongs: how many American conservatives ready trans individuals
Can we talk about trans lefts instead?
I personally think we should discuss trans stayeds.
It could be a David Foster Wallace reference. “In the eighth American-educational grade, Bruce Green fell dreadfully in love with a classmate who had the unlikely name of Mildred Bonk. The name was unlikely because if ever an eighth-grader looked like a Daphne Christianson or a Kimberly St.-Simone or something like that, it was Mildred Bonk.”
I 100% support people to transition. I don’t think people should get to pick their own names without any veto.
What if they changed their name to Adolf Hitler?
i don’t think i’ve ever seen or heard tell of in legends or song, a wikipedia entry that has a simple english page, but no regular english page.
Not to be confused with Adolf Hitler
Yes, the civil rights activist, not the civil rights antithesist 😅
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna28269290
I’ve sadly interacted with that ‘human’
I never thought I’d say this, but I feel sorry for Adolf Hitler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heath_Hitler
you’re thinking of a different guy
Honest question: Are there no limits in the US to what you can legally name your child? Where I’m from a name can be rejected if it can “cause significant harm or inconvenience to the child”. This prevents idiots from naming their child “Traitor” or “Terrorist”.
There are limits in many places, sometimes in response to that time the artist Prince changed his name to a symbol, in some cases all special characters are banned too, so good luck to anyone with a non-English name. But outside of that? In most states you could probably name your kid Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, much worse names have happened.
I think there’s been a couple of times where states have tried to stop individuals who have tried to name their kid Adolph Hitler or just some racist slogan, but I don’t remember how those went, it was a genuine legal question if those names could be blocked.
Name changes, however, are a different thing - often requiring a judge to approve them, they can be rejected simply due to the misfortune of being a trans person in Texas, for example. Unless it’s a name change due to marriage, those are significantly easier for some reason.
Thats why they said they want to be able to veto…
I’m supporting their point
Oh okay to me it looked like u misunderstood their point. mb
Only if they were hot. At least a nein.
I think names would actually be more meaningful if people picked their own.
Thought Slime goes by Mildred…
But they’re kind of self-aware, so I think it’s supposed to make them more off-putting.
I used to watch Thought Slime a lot, even donated to them a few times… then started watching videos from the people they’ve “called out” on stream, followed a rabbit-hole of people who were hurt and never apologized to and realized they’re just another youtube dramafarmer clicks-at-all-costs, no discrimination, storyline-crafting liar. Like everyone.
Free yourselves humanity, stop watching streamers.
edit: I know the parasocialism online runs really deep and just saying this is going to get some people losing their shit to defend their fav streamer, I literally don’t care, you have to be aware that every streamer has an army of knights to defend them, and I don’t like engaging that way and am not going to spend my time arguing. I’m not out to change your mind, just explain why I changed mine.
I like Mildred. Such a shame that names go ‘out of date’.
Then, how about Sigurd and Brynhild?
Btw, my mother (60) is named Margaretha.
Damn right. If I transitioned, I wouldn’t take a lame name like Mildred. I’d go for something cool like Radicalorange or Forcefulblue.
Why not Periwinkle or Orangered?
Team periwinkle represent
The admins fucking rigged that game
You don’t have to transition for that, most adults can get their name changed whenever they like.
There was a guy who changed his name to Sydney Harbour Bridge because he could.
now if it was Mildread…
Mildred is a metal as fuck name.
better than all the reddit Lunas desu
I knew an old lady that has since died, her first name was Mildred. She went by her middle name because even when she was a kid, Mildred was perceived as an unattractive name.
Mildreds out here, tryin ta take ‘Mildred’ back, and y’all throwin shade like people ain’t have to live with dumbass fuckin names like Mildred. Leave Mildreds alone! They’ve got enough to deal with. Wait, they chose Mildred, like as an adult? In the present? Pfft.
Mildred is on my top list of dog names, along with Myrtle, Milhouse, Milton, Mortimer, and Mable. We currently have Monty, Mary, and Maizie.
Never for a human, though. It’s too old fashioned. Unless you’re thought slime, then it just fucking works for some reason…
Thrillho!
why all M names?
Clearly you are not a dog person
Started as a coincidence, turned into a bit of a tradition. Before the M names we named them solely on characters from our favorite media (Ricky, Lucy, Ethel, fred, Jack for a character from The Talisman, Ellie Mae). We’ve fostered a lot, so there’s been a lot of names. But when we got Monty, for Monty Python, we then named the next one Mary, for Mary Tyler Moore. We decided to name her sister Maizie, and just run with it.
I’ve noticed a trend with trans women picking the stupidest names, and idk why. Like I kinda get Mildred because it’s a classic name and has a cute nickname. So it stands to reason maybe she has a family member that was a huge influence on her so she wants to honor her with that name but why the fuck do people pick names like Lola.
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls, It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, Except for Lola
“Lexi”
See, “Lexathoidiopterix” is just not a great name though.
Is the nickname Milly?
I believe that is but I could be wrong as there are some crazy nick names out there like Peggy for Margaret.
That’s exactly why I asked
Dredicus.
No, Kevin
So her lips can taste like cherry cola.
Is that a reference to something I am too old to understand?
Lola by The Kinks in 1970,
The song details a romantic encounter in a SOHO bar between a young man and the eponymous Lola, who is possibly a trans woman or cross-dresser.
one of the lyrics references her cherry cola tasting lips
small office home office bar 😍😍
that’s the one yup
Holy crap how did I never know that! That is by far and away my favorite scene in futurama. Thank you for showing me this it gives me a whole new appreciation for this joke. Tbh, I assumed it was just a joke on all the Shatner spoken word versions of songs.
My great grandmothers were: Lola, Layla, Eula, Lulua. For real. They were born around 1900.
We have a cat named Lulu.
One of your great-grandmothers got Clapton on his knees.
And I bet Eula never even read any EULAs
