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 like Mildred. Such a shame that names go ‘out of date’.
Then, how about Sigurd and Brynhild?
Btw, my mother (60) is named Margaretha.
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
I wanna be supportive but, fucking Mildred?
Engaging in sexual intercourse with Mildred is prefectly fine as long as there is mutual consent. However, it is not required. Kind words are usually sufficient.
However, it is not required
The sex, not the consent, I hope.
You hope correctly.
In addition, anal intercourse is not appreciated by everyone.
Disgusting
I don’t think I could have sex with a woman named Mildred. Just imagine hitting it from behind, and then you remember her name is Mildred. You’d go soft like a wet noodle within seconds.
Hey man, all cats are grey in the dark.
If history is okay with our degenerate friend Fry here being his own grandpa, who are we to judge?
mildblue
Alright, everything’s coming up Mildred!
R*ddit / lemmy don’t do transphobia for five seconds challenge impossible
Maybe because I grew up multicultural, so I rarely find any strange names, well, strange.
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…
why all M names?
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.
Clearly you are not a dog person
Thrillho!
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.”
Should have gone with Genevieve, way more modern.
That’s hard to spell
OK, Jazzmyn.
my only criticism is that it isn’t old-fashioned enough. if we’re reaching back to old names, why not go all the way and pick a name like Ælfgifu
Yes, please! What I’d give to see generation of Çeowulfs, Ælfgifus, Freyjas, Thorrs and Ragnars.
Elon?
Too difficult for the clerk to find a keyboard with anglo saxon accomodative keyboard shortcuts.
They’d get Aelfig
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.
If you want to get to Millie, start with Camilla. Not fucking Mildred.
It’s actually short for Maleficent
You want to cite a source for that because I can’t find anything. Everything I’m finding says that before 1959 it was never used as a name and only as a word. And the name translates differently than Mildred.
/s, sorry
Or Amelia, Melissa or simply just Millie, who’s gonna stop you?
