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Comment on Mildred
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 months agoNobody’s saying that it’s a made-up name. Just that it’s really stupid. It’s the name of a housewife during the Great depression
Holzkohlen@feddit.de 3 months ago
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I don’t see what’s wrong with the name. What’s bad about housewifes¹ during the Great Depression? Those people have had their lives we could respect like we do Billies or Gretas today too.
¹Apart from gendered division of unpaid labour and care
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It was just a way of saying its an old persons name.
sorter_plainview@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Since I am not from the western hemisphere, I find it difficult to understand what is wrong with the name. Is it just that it sounds bad? Or any other reason?
InquisitiveApathy@lemm.ee 3 months ago
This excerpt from the linked Wikipedia article for the name abstractly summarizes it nicely.
The name Mildred was very common about a hundred years ago, but never really at any other point since. If you see the name Mildred without seeing the person in question your first thoughts will be that they are extremely old. That’s really about it.
bradbeattie@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
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thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It has several negative sound associations to me: mildew, dread, mild. It sounds stale and bland.