• LouNeko@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I still can get over the logic behind choosing “Elliot” over “Allen” as a male name after transitioning. “Allen” is a perfectly masculine name and phonetically much closer to “Ellen”. People basically wouldn’t even have to rejust talking to you.

    “It’s his choice what he wants to be called, so why do you care?” Because you yourself are probably the person who who says your own name the least. It’s something everybody else has to deal with.

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      4 days ago

      You have to “deal” with referring to a celebrity by a name you don’t prefer? Somehow this is an inconvenience for you?

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        4 days ago

        Its just a unique circumstance where a male and female name are almost phoneticaly almost identical and not taking advantage of that is kind if an oversight to your own fortune.

        It’s like missing a curb by an inch and then getting out if the car to scratch your rims by hand anyway.

        • horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world
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          4 days ago

          I’m wondering if you talk to people face to face about these things. Do their eyes tend to glass over? Do they say uh huh alot?

          These statements have the energy of a guy in a coffee shop asking a women to take one of her airpods out just to tell her that Elliot Page picked the wrong name.