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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is in Off-Topic because it's not about expecting. Fox5 morning so-called news just listed the "five most powerful male names." Here is the list. Unreal they think these are powerful names.

Robert 
Michael
James
John
Christopher

Really? These are the names of dentists. I guess Michael could own his own landscaping company and Christopher would make a good glass artist at Glen Echo. Certainly not powerful names. Fox5 "news" tends to suddenly turn from news into a Starbucks filled with shrieking teen girls -- which is when you have to change the channel if you've already graduated from high school -- and this is one of those "news" stories apparently.

Give me a good paragraph or two about your most powerful males with these names. Fiction preferred (obviously).[/quote]

Stupid, racist, white-centrist, judeo-christian centrist crap.

Mohamed
Muhammad 
Javier
Rong 
Singh
Rashmir
Bantu
Olijibwe

There’s plenty of powerful male names that aren’t cowtowing to eurocentric white male BS

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Yeah you're not racist at all are you.  :roll:

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.[/quote]

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