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Thursday, 11 November 2010

A boy named sue



 The Daily Beast looks at, for want of a better word, parents who give their sons effeminate names because they, in the words of one commenter, want them to be little girls with penises.

What is staggering about this article isn't that the comments are nearly all of the "What the hell?" quality, nor that the author treats this sort of Feminist daftness as being so entirely reasonable that no alternative view needs to be seriously considered, it's that the United States has so many educated, well-off people who basically see their ideal society as one that is on a par with that of the Romans just before Alaric and his Visgoths smashed down the gates.

1 comment:

  1. Joshua soft-and-fuzzy sounding? Did anyone do his research?

    Some of these names sound like something the mother (I assume) made up.

    I see a generation of real scrappers coming out of this. Calling a poor kid "Nancers" or something of the sort is like tattooing a "please kick me" sign on his back. He'll be getting a lot of hands-on fighting experience. I wouldn't do that to a kid of mine.

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