On Ridiculing Names

Apr. 26th, 2025 08:12 pm
elyusion: Three Weeks for Dreamwidth (3w4dw)
I wasn't able to finish the thing I was supposed to share in time, so I'm going to replace it with an opinion piece written while very tired instead. (Might have to replace my plans for Day 4 too... we'll see.)

You may have seen graphs floating around about the reddest (Republicancore) and bluest (Democratcore) baby names. And maybe you've seen this picture before:

pregnant, smiling white woman posed next to a chalkboard with the names Taylee, McKarty, Nayvie, and Maylee crossed out, and the name Lakynn circled

Well. I thought the picture was funny the very first time I saw it, and that's it. Hasn't been funny since. It just makes me feel :/ now. The reason is that I don't believe in making fun of names, except for under very narrow circumstances like naming your child a keysmash or consistently using the letter X because you're obsessed with dystopian scifi while being the one creating said future. It's overplayed and possibly counterproductive, and the Republican-coded names are interesting if you try to look into why they've sprung into popularity. Just like another culture whose names are oft-derided.

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Completely Ridiculous

Apr. 22nd, 2025 04:35 pm
elyusion: (angry)
No matter what, you cannot convince me decreasing birth rates is a real problem. I don't believe in overpopulation - I think we have enough resources to take care of everyone and then some, when distributed properly - but having less people couldn't hurt. Boohoo, taking care of old people will be hard and expensive, whatever. We just have to ride it out for a while and then it'll be over. Instead we act like civilization requires cancerous growth to continue.

There's no way to get birth rates back up to a "desirable" level without sending women back to a position of servitude, bottom line. No matter how many incentives there are, at the end of the day most women who are completely free to make their own choices, no lack of education or opportunities holding them back, will have few or no children. I'm not even going to get into the racism behind the ideology.

So every time I hear anyone seriously entertain the notion of an international fertility "crisis" I roll my eyes hard. Suck it up and reorganize society if it's that serious. 🖕🏾
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"Yumeshipping"

Feb. 11th, 2025 05:57 pm
elyusion: (die)
using yumeship over selfship is so "thing, japan"

it creates the situation of having to define the word over and over again when a newcomer appears, since its meaning isn't immediately self-evident. and then some people define it wrong and misconceptions grow. plus i think selfship only fell out of use because of cringe.

but eventually yumeship will become a cringe term too. then what? mèngship? (for the chinese cultural victory timeline)
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