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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All I know is that I can't stand the boy names on girls trend that seems to be ever so popular (Scottie, Elliot(t), Stevie, Murphy, Blake, James, Ezra, Ryan). Yuck! 🤮[/quote]

I didn't feel strongly about this trend before becoming a mom, but now that I'm 10 years in, I find it disturbing.

Primarily because of all the parents I've encountered who are convinced that they've solved misogyny for their daughters by giving them "boy" names and refusing to let them have pink anything and pushing them towards boy-coded activities. It's wild. All they are doing is teaching their daughters that being female or liking anything associated with girls or femininity is bad. I'm not saying you should give your daughter a princess name and dress her in pink ribbons and bows and teach her to bake, but the outright *hostility* some parents (especially moms) have towards femininity in their daughters is effed up. They think they've pulled some kind of end run around misogyny but in reality they've just heavily reinforced it for their daughters (and their sons) who will grow up thinking anything feminine is gross and unserious and unimportant and to be avoided. Yay?[/quote]

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