“Weird” names
As someone with a cultural name thats very long and very difficult to pronounce for English speakers the argument against “weird” names is so odd to me
By weird names I mean names that are either unconventional (ex. Valley, Saffron, divine)
Or common names with weird spellings
Idk this though came to me after reading a Reddit story about this girl saying that her sister was naming her baby something weird and asking if she was the asshole for telling her not to and everyone was agreeing with her and giving her reasons why but all of the reasons made no sense to me
“She’s going to get bullied”
“People aren’t going to know how to pronounce/spell it”
“It’s going to be harder for them to get jobs”
“People are going to look down on them”
These are all things that also apply to my name but whenever I bring that up it’s always
“There’s a difference between cultural names and naming your kid something weird”
Why?
Why is there a difference?
Why is it wrong and uncalled for when i get bullied for my name but if a kid with a weird name gets bullied it’s always “what did you expect?”
Why is my mom not selfish and immature for not giving me an “American” name when we moved here but other parents are for giving their kids “stupid” names?
Why is it wrong for people to assume things about me and my mom because of my name but it’s fine to assume that your parent is dumb if you have a weird name?
Why?
Like people are litterally saying that it’s borderline ABUSE to give your kid a badly spelled name like are yall serious rn?
Why is the focus “you should do what you can to limit the chances of your kids getting bullied” and not “hey maybe we should address the serious bullying problem in schools”
It doesn’t make sense to me and honestly just makes me mad
Anyways what do y’all think?
