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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The surgeon who orthopedic surgeon who replaced my mother’s knee is named Daisy.  Trust me, she’s taken seriously.  It would never occur to me that anyone would think it wasn’t anymore than Rose.

Great name.  [b]DCUM is so weird and conservative on names.[/b]  [/quote]

There's a natural bias on here against anything perceived as a non-traditional name because people on the forum can be split into traditionalists and non-traditionalist.

Traditionalists HATE every name that isn't within their set of acceptable names. Thus you get the people in this thread who are like "It's a cow's name", "it's a puppy name", "I could never respect a grown woman named Daisy." They are unimaginative people. They are actively fearful of something different. So they respond with nastiness to anything that feels different.

But non-traditionalists don't hate traditional names, they just find them boring. So they'll respond to a thread about Elizabeth and say "it's pretty, but so common." Still a criticism, but so much milder and more of a "if this is what you want, at least it's a pretty name" response. The most forceful this group gets is when someone suggests a more popular name, and then they will sometimes get a little nasty about this "Oh my god, ANOTHER Sophia?" But the criticism isn't really on the name, it's on the choice to use a more popular name.

As a result, even though lots of PPs have said they like or even love this name, the traditionalists are going to pan it aggressively. I mean, page 1 of this thread is almost entirely people saying "No just name her Margaret." Because Margaret is a traditional name and they consider Daisy to be a nickname, and deviating from that is transgressive and bad.

If I am OP, I'm automatically dismissing anyone who's like "it's not a real name" or "it's a cow's name" because these people aren't actually responding to the name itself but the perception that it deviates from what you are "supposed" to do when you name your child. I have not time for people like that.[/quote]

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