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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obvious boy names for girls is a low class southern thing [/quote]

That, and a signal that the parent is sexist but too dumb to realize it.

Tell me OP, would you name your boy Emma, Rose, or Charlotte?[/quote]

To be fair, none of those names are considered gender neutral at all. Hunter is becoming more common for girls, :

https://www.thebump.com/b/hunter-baby-name#chart

Think throwing sexism around is a bit much here. Overall I don't disagree with your implicit statement that more "boy" names have become gender neutral than girl names. And, I'm sure you're right there is a lot to unpack as to why that is the case...but it's a leap to call OP an ignorant sexist. 
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Hunter is not a gender neutral name. As recently as 2022, Hunter is ~10x more common on males. In 2010, ~20x more common for boys. And so on.

It’s not a lot to unpack to understand why parents are happy to name their girls male names like Hunter when they never do the equivalent for their boys. [/quote]

I'm sorry you're uncomfortable when parents deviate from gender stereotypes when naming their child. [/quote]

NP but the issue is the deviation only goes in one direction.  You're not into breaking gender stereotypes, you just have internalized a lot of terrible messaging about femininity.[/quote]

I agree and am happy someone is pointing this out. I actually gave my daughter a truly sex-neutral name (I think it’s got about a 50:50 distribution), but just because it was the only name we agreed on and didn’t give it much thought. [b]Now, as a gender critical feminist, I am worried people might think this[/b] about us and her name because it’s a legitimate criticism.[/quote]

An insecure gender-critical feminist? Groundbreaking. [/quote]

Insecure about ONE issue does not mean insecure in general or about my feminism. I doubt you’ve ever met a single gender critical feminist in real life and have no idea what they/we are like.[/quote]

I mean, there is no way for me to prove this, but I certainly have met gender-critical feminists in real life--both here in America as well as in the UK where the movement is more mainstream. That said, I'm also intelligent enough to know that meeting one person (or even several) that adheres to a certain ideology doesn't mean I know what every member of that same movement is like...so not sure what your point is there.

We're all individuals, you know, and it wouldn't be fair to try to reduce someone to a single descriptor if it doesn't fit them. [/quote]

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