"Most Powerful Male Names"
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Anonymous
These are boring. |
Anonymous
Barack is spelled with one R |
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Our grandson was born recently and named James. I originally thought it was kinda boring but now I like it.
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Anonymous
Yeah that was the whole point of OP’s post. |
Anonymous
| Vladimir. |
Anonymous
Amari Amari is a spice trade millionaire based in Stone City, Zanzibar, Tanzania. He is very well connected in Tanzania’s largest port city Dar es Salaam. His family do not have the equivalent of billionaire status as his ancestors did in the mid 19th century but nonetheless, he enjoys great wealth and plays important roles in his community. His family had emerged as wealthy merchants and land owners during Zanzibar's spice trade boom in the 19th century (particularly focused on producing cloves and nutmeg). The Sultan of Oman introduced clove cultivation to Zanzibar in 1818, and the island became the world's largest producer. Unfortunately, the demand for labor on the spice plantations also fueled the African slave trade. Amari’s great great great grandfather had forced many enslaved people to work on the family plantations. Amari’s great grandfather (also named Amari) was the family patriarch in 1873 when the Anglo-Zanzibar Treaty was signed, which officially ending the slave trade in Zanzibar. Amari’s great grandfather deftly transitioned the family plantations to paid labor and the business thrived. In the early 21st century Amari took advantage of his many connections and historical high status in Zanzibar to diversify the family business holdings on the mainland. He effortlessly navigated the cultural mixing pot on Zanzibar and in Dar es Salaam by talking and connecting with many different types of people in respectful but jovial ways. Amari led the charge of Zanzibar business and community leaders seeking to acknowledge its past dark history. In 2024, Zanzibar commemorated the abolition of slavery for the first time, with local authorities expressing a desire to make it an annual event. To follow later - back stories on Ander Gabriel Juda Martin |
Anonymous
agree; racist |
Anonymous
I knew an Ashley in college. He was HOT. |
Anonymous
Did you go to Amherst? |
Anonymous
Yeah you're not racist at all are you. 
Rashmir had always resented being given a gender-neutral name. It only added to the razor's edge he was already on: on the one hand were his Indian grandparents, who referred to India as "the homeland," and on the other were his parents, who rejected the notion of ever going "back to" somewhere they had never even lived. As for Rashmir, he was happy the other elementary school boys did not know that his name could be used for a boy or for a girl; if they did, there would be hell to pay. He was unisex!! "It's means a ray of sunshine," his mother had said. "Be proud of your name." Great, he was a sunbeam in Sanskrit. How about a rainbow or a unicorn. So he told everyone in school that in "his culture" (which was actually American, since he and his parents had only ever lived in the United States) his name was on a short list of the most masculine names. And he slowly came to believe that himself. He forgot all about his lie, something which was not a part of who he was. He was an excellent student and graduated from a top college. He began to feel as if his name were actually true -- he had been blessed with a ray of light that made his path forward seem bright. He moved up and up and up in his career, as if he were climbing a ladder directly to the sun. The only thing missing from his life was a family of his own. One day there was a new hire at his company. He met her in the break room. She was beautiful and smart, everything he had dreamed in a companion. Unfortunately her name was Rashmi, the original of Rashmir, and their names became an instant joke at the office. Instead of telling himself he was on the short list of the most masculine names, he had to admit to himself that he had lied all along. He had a gender neutral name. Fortunately for him, the new hire was braver than he was, and less racist and had no self-loathing or need to push back against "stupid, racist, white-centrist, judeo-christian centrist crap." Instead she embraced her family's culture, the culture around her with ease. She asked Rashmir out. They eventually got married in and had several children -- Rashmir the second and the third, named with a wink; Javier, after a friend from high school; James, after a good friend who was best man at the wedding; and Rong, after a college advisor. Rong grew up miserable, of course, feeling out of place and needing a sad excuse to explain his gender-neutral Chinese name to everyone he met, preferring to go by a simple Ron. |
Anonymous
Multi-race hand clapping emoji. |
Anonymous
If you want to start a thread about names in another country go ahead. We live in a white euro-centric country. I especially love how "male" was thrown into the complaint about a thread about male names. LOL |
Anonymous
DP I think a lot of posters seemed to miss OP’s point that the original powerful male name list provided by Fox was fairly pedestrian. The posters dismissing that list as boring, missed the irony by not providing names they consider manly and interesting … Personally I like a mix of names reflecting a mix of cultures - just like our melting pot society. I’m not sure that we are a white Eurocentric society anymore but they are certainly a major influence here. I almost think the stories are more important than the names themselves for illuminating different forms of strong masculine energy … |
Anonymous
Any preferences for next back story on Ander, Gabriel, Juda or Martin? It will take a minute … if no interest, I won’t bother … Akuna Matata … |
Anonymous
General Stonewall Jackson was a powerful man. |