Millennial parents are increasingly giving gender-neutral names to
their offspring, according to BabyCenter.com. Unisex baby names are rapidly
proliferating as younger parents embrace the possibility of “gender fluidity”
in their children and strive to avoid any appearance of sexism.
BabyCenter.com’s
global editor-in-chief, Linda Murray, told the Associated Press, “We’re
definitely seeing more conversation today around the distinction of a truly
gender-neutral name. This generation is
truly interested in gender neutral names.”
Lori Kinkler (!), a psychologist (there’s a shock) in San Antonio,
Texas, stated: “We chose a gender-neutral name, Riley, for my daughter. We knew
her sex, but gender is fluid and yet to be determined. Of all the difficulties
faced by those who live beyond, or across, the binary, we didn’t want
name-changing to be one of them. ... I like that she feels she has options and
knows she’ll be accepted by us no matter what.”
Riley
is 3. And you’re implicitly telling her that you aren’t particularly attached
to her the way she is. At best, that’s confusing. At worst, devastating.
According to the
Social Security Administration, which tracks baby name usage on an annual
basis, among the 50 most popular androgynous names are: Charlie (which was
evenly split at 50% for girls and 50% for boys!), Justice (52-48), Skyler
(54-46), Finley (58-42), and Royal (42-58). Rounding out the Top 10 were
Lennon, Oakley, Armani, Azariah, and Landry. Salem was popular, too.
Is this
neutral naming nonsense just a fad? Probably not. As more and more of us come
to believe there is no connection between one’s sex and one’s gender, we’ll all
soon be so confused about even the very basics of life, that the trend will
likely accelerate. We’ll be addled, over-sexed, non-gendered droids trapped in
a prison of our own making—one of utter intolerance for all that came before
us.
We won’t be just a bunch of Toms, Dicks or
Harrys anymore. We won’t be Betty or Veronica, Mary Ann or Ginger, either. And
we won’t be Frank with anybody, certainly not ourselves.
We will be
Moon-Units, Lemons, and LeRoyces. We will be Mazda or Tolerance, Purple or
Purity, Mystery or Truth…Dumbass or Shithead.
And we
will be lost. Because a Rose by any other name…will still be a Rose.
We just
won’t recognize that.
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