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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So she’s scared of books?
mildblue
R*ddit / lemmy don’t do transphobia for five seconds challenge impossible
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.”
Alright, everything’s coming up Mildred!
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 Such a shame that names go ‘out of date’.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.
Maybe because I grew up multicultural, so I rarely find any strange names, well, strange.
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.
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.
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.
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
Is the nickname Milly?
No, Kevin
Dredicus.
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
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls, It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, Except for Lola
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.
“Lexi”
See, “Lexathoidiopterix” is just not a great name though.
Mildred is iffy but Millie is an adorable name.
Mildred is the worst… witch
When I was in school the kids with the weird names were either picked on or they were super cool and popular. Their parents had no idea which one they were going to be when they chose the name.
Your friend has the benefit of knowing who she is already. If she knows she’s going rock it, then go Mildred.
You’re usually fine if you’ve got a biblically significant name. Many of those have staying power. Adam, Joshua, David, Samuel, Michael, Rebecca, John, Mary, Paul, etc. not all of them work though, and it varies by culture. “Jesus” is really coming in Spanish but almost unheard of in English (American POV).
That is a bit of a selection bias. What you are effectively saying is “the biblical names that have survived to today have staying power”.
But even that isn’t true here as almost all of the names you cite are significantly different now than their original forms. Looking at your list we have Yeshua, Shemuel, Mikael, Rivka, Yohanan, Miriam, and Paulus. Adam is mostly the same, as is David (with a bit of an accent difference), but the rest didn’t exactly emerge as they were.
My son is named Jericho 🤷🏽♀️
Jerry
