Friday, November 12, 2010

Illiteracy Is A Terrible Thing

This article (brief synopsis: SWPLs think boys should be raised to be sissies, have begun giving their sons girly names) is making the rounds.  The writer and the various pantywaists she quotes are very silly.  I won't belabor it; we've covered this ground around here before: boys are not girls, etc.  For my part, though, the funniest bit is this:

Fully half of the names on the most recent boys' Top 100 list are choices that break with masculine naming tradition, compared with less than 20 percent of the names on the 1960 boys' list. These include traditional names with feminine qualities such as softer sounds and/or vowel endings: Joshua, Sebastian, Elijah.

I can't speak for Sebastian, but Joshua was the conqueror of Jericho and Elijah was quite possibly the hardest man who ever lived. In comparison to either of these cats, John Rambo is a huge pussy.  If their names are feminine, I'm not sure what would count as masculine.  

1 comments:

Julie said...

Speaking of baby names, there's a really interesting site run by the social security administration which not only lists the most popular birth names of the previous year, but offers a range of tools to analyze names even further. You can see the popularity of names in particular states, the popularity ranking of a particular name over a range of time, the popularity of names for twins, and other interesting breakdowns of baby name data.

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/