Enough talk about trans rights, it’s time to talk about trans wrongs /s
Mildred
Submitted 5 months ago by LodeMike@lemmy.today to [deleted]
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SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 5 months ago
But first, let’s discuss the right and wrong trans wrongs.
The right trans wrongs: coming from a place of deep respect for you as a friend, Mildred is not the right name for you
The wrong trans wrongs: how many American conservatives ready trans individuals
Amir@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Can we talk about trans lefts instead?
Mac@mander.xyz 5 months ago
I personally think we should discuss trans stayeds.
yemmly@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I wanna be supportive but, fucking Mildred?
Engaging in sexual intercourse with Mildred is prefectly fine as long as there is mutual consent. However, it is not required.
samus12345@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In addition, anal intercourse is not appreciated by everyone.
Tyr_Raidho_Othala@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 5 months ago
However, it is not required
The sex, not the consent, I hope.
yemmly@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You hope correctly.
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 5 months ago
I don’t think I could have sex with a woman named Mildred. Just imagine hitting it from behind, and then you remember her name is Mildred. You’d go soft like a wet noodle within seconds.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hey man, all cats are grey in the dark.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If history is okay with our degenerate friend Fry here being his own grandpa, who are we to judge?
Aremel@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I gotta agree with the post. Millie would be a cute alternative Mildred. The name reminds me of mildew.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It reminds me of an angry goose
Voran@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I like that though
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Mildew with a soupçon of dread
eratic@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
[deleted]programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
She just like me fr
MaliciousKebab@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I heard blighttown is great for going on a trip as a single guy this time of the year.
pastabatman@lemmy.world 5 months ago
When I was in school the kids with the weird names were either picked on or they were super cool and popular. Their parents had no idea which one they were going to be when they chose the name.
Your friend has the benefit of knowing who she is already. If she knows she’s going rock it, then go Mildred.
Etterra@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You’re usually fine if you’ve got a biblically significant name. Many of those have staying power. Adam, Joshua, David, Samuel, Michael, Rebecca, John, Mary, Paul, etc. not all of them work though, and it varies by culture. “Jesus” is really coming in Spanish but almost unheard of in English (American POV).
Alatain@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That is a bit of a selection bias. What you are effectively saying is “the biblical names that have survived to today have staying power”.
But even that isn’t true here as almost all of the names you cite are significantly different now than their original forms. Looking at your list we have Yeshua, Shemuel, Mikael, Rivka, Yohanan, Miriam, and Paulus. Adam is mostly the same, as is David (with a bit of an accent difference), but the rest didn’t exactly emerge as they were.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If you want to get to Millie, start with Camilla. Not fucking Mildred.
Infynis@midwest.social 5 months ago
It’s actually short for Maleficent
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You want to cite a source for that because I can’t find anything. Everything I’m finding says that before 1959 it was never used as a name and only as a word. And the name translates differently than Mildred.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Or Amelia, Melissa or simply just Millie, who’s gonna stop you?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Are geriatric names coming back? Are we going to have a generation of Gladyses and Eustices?
cm0002@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Eustices
That’s it, I’m gettin me mallet!
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Stupid dog!!!
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Is it bad that my first thought was Eustice Kidd from One Piece?
Keep that boy away from magnets and we should all be fine!
Praxis@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Ah, a fan of the Ace Attorney Investigations fan translations, I see /j
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
It’s called the 100-year rule
All the common names we grew up with were retro to our parents, and names we think are just so boomer are probably going to be our grandkids’ names.
ThatOrangeBird@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Looks like it. Names like Eleanor, Hazel, Lillian, Ellie and even Millie are in the top 100 baby names this year, and a couple of them are in the top 20 in the U.S.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I mean I want to name my first son Abe, but that’s because it was my grandfather’s americanized name (Ibrahim)
I think some geriatric sounding names are still respectable sounding enough to stand as good names for kids today. Dot and Conny I think would be good ones for girls and those are nicknames for Dorothy and Constance.
DMBFFF@lemmy.world 5 months ago
mal3oon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve noticed a trend with trans women picking the stupidest names, and idk why. Like I kinda get Mildred because it’s a classic name and has a cute nickname. So it stands to reason maybe she has a family member that was a huge influence on her so she wants to honor her with that name but why the fuck do people pick names like Lola.
Godnroc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So her lips can taste like cherry cola.
VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Is that a reference to something I am too old to understand?
Machinist@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My great grandmothers were: Lola, Layla, Eula, Lulua. For real. They were born around 1900.
We have a cat named Lulu.
Manalith@midwest.social 5 months ago
And I bet Eula never even read any EULAs
Slovene@feddit.nl 5 months ago
One of your great-grandmothers got Clapton on his knees.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls, It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, Except for Lola
Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Is the nickname Milly?
anti@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Dredicus.
VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I believe that is but I could be wrong as there are some crazy nick names out there like Peggy for Margaret.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
No, Kevin
ikidd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“Lexi”
Donkter@lemmy.world 5 months ago
See, “Lexathoidiopterix” is just not a great name though.
Slovene@feddit.nl 5 months ago
“Belle”
f4hy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I 100% support people to transition. I don’t think people should get to pick their own names without any veto.
vonxylofon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Damn right. If I transitioned, I wouldn’t take a lame name like Mildred. I’d go for something cool like Radicalorange or Forcefulblue.
robocall@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I knew an old lady that has since died, her first name was Mildred. She went by her middle name because even when she was a kid, Mildred was perceived as an unattractive name.
Marleyinoc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Maybe it’s the meaning. Just looked it up: Mildred means “gentle strength.” I’m warming up to it.
kerrigan778@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Mildred is iffy but Millie is an adorable name.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I am and will always be an ally. Mildred though. 😬
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Should have gone with Genevieve, way more modern.
Rolando@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Mildred sounds like a lot of fun.
- is the chief wit at her monthly book club, where everyone is a published author
- serves tea with strange flavors that you’ll never taste again (and leave you feeling a little… dizzy)
- can tell you your future just by talking with you for 5 minutes - with 90% accuracy
- understands that the 1980 BBC miniseries of Pride & Prejudice is the best Austen adaptation ever
- knows more about gardening than most horticulturists
- when she insults you, you don’t realize it until weeks later.
callouscomic@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yes. The way to support your friend is to fuck them. Fucking Mildred is the answer.
b000rg@midwest.social 5 months ago
Thought Slime goes by Mildred…
dreugeworst@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
my only criticism is that it isn’t old-fashioned enough. if we’re reaching back to old names, why not go all the way and pick a name like Ælfgifu
MagnyusG@lemmy.world 5 months ago
now if it was Mildread…
crusa187@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Alright, everything’s coming up Mildred!
Pheral@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Mildred is a metal as fuck name.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Mildred is on my top list of dog names, along with Myrtle, Milhouse, Milton, Mortimer, and Mable. We currently have Monty, Mary, and Maizie.
Never for a human, though. It’s too old fashioned. Unless you’re thought slime, then it just fucking works for some reason…
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Valid name.
duderium2@lemmy.world 5 months ago
R*ddit / lemmy don’t do transphobia for five seconds challenge impossible
pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
It could be a David Foster Wallace reference. “In the eighth American-educational grade, Bruce Green fell dreadfully in love with a classmate who had the unlikely name of Mildred Bonk. The name was unlikely because if ever an eighth-grader looked like a Daphne Christianson or a Kimberly St.-Simone or something like that, it was Mildred Bonk.”
Voran@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I like Mildred. Such a shame that names go ‘out of date’.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Maybe because I grew up multicultural, so I rarely find any strange names, well, strange.
bi_tux@lemmy.world 5 months ago
better than all the reddit Lunas desu
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I say this as a trans woman. I will support, defend and love you no matter what sis.
But…
Fucking Mildred!?
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s my great grandma’s name. I think it’s pretty nice. Lol.
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh sure, I bet your Great Grandma is a lovely person and I have nothing against her or her name.
But, it is very much a GREAT GRANDMA sort of name that is super out of date. I would be exactly as critical as a parent naming their child Mildred.
Zidane@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Also my great grandmother’s name… Cousin?
Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I throw no shade on Mildred… As long as she’s one of those girls who like dress in 1950’s fashions and is way too into electroswing.
Then it’s only fitting.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 months ago
As a trans woman, fuck yeah Mildred. Take that awful name and make it your own. Sure you could’ve been a Megan or a Maria or even a McKenzie, but anyone could pull those off. You chose Mildred to flex on us plebs
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In contrary to my own comment, I entirely agree with this take.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Do you accept Morgana or Gertrude better?
MelastSB@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Morgana rocks, like Morrigan
melvisntnormal@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Only if I can still decide when I go to sleep
CreativeShotgun@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I had some friends that saved me from…Edith ugh.
Then i did a juke and went with Eleanore lol
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Haaaa! I actually think Eleanore is a very pretty name, it has an elegant quality to me? Good pick! ♥
pyre@lemmy.world 5 months ago
cishet dude here so i dunno how much what I’m about to say matters but I’ve always liked the name Eleanor(e) because The Practice is my favorite procedural series and in that show Eleanor was a badass woman with strong convictions and morals.
she also was in one of the coolest scenes in tv imo, having a very heated argument entirely in sign language. here’s an unfortunately terrible recording of it: youtu.be/CwV9dHHQj-8
anyway i think Eleanore is a cool name, but more than that, once people associate it with you that’s what they will think about when they hear the name, the kind of person you are. not the other way around.
barsoap@lemm.ee 5 months ago
rektdeckard@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lol, Edith and Mildred are literally my grandmother’s names. Edith is a badass and just turned 99.