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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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
    512·
    5 months ago

    Nobody’s saying that it’s a made-up name. Just that it’s really stupid. It’s the name of a housewife during the Great depression

    • sorter_plainview@lemmy.today
      71·
      5 months ago

      Since I am not from the western hemisphere, I find it difficult to understand what is wrong with the name. Is it just that it sounds bad? Or any other reason?

      • InquisitiveApathy@lemm.eeEnglish
        25·
        5 months ago

        This excerpt from the linked Wikipedia article for the name abstractly summarizes it nicely.

        It reached the rank of the sixth most popular name for girls in the United States in 1912 and maintained that popularity through 1920, but then its popularity dropped quickly afterward.[2]

        The name Mildred was very common about a hundred years ago, but never really at any other point since. If you see the name Mildred without seeing the person in question your first thoughts will be that they are extremely old. That’s really about it.

    • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      24·
      5 months ago

      I don’t see what’s wrong with the name. What’s bad about housewifes¹ during the Great Depression? Those people have had their lives we could respect like we do Billies or Gretas today too.

      ¹Apart from gendered division of unpaid labour and care