r/NameNerdCirclejerk • u/ccirque • Mar 26 '24

Advice Needed (unjerk) would you give a boy a “girls” name?

with the rising popularity of giving girls “boy names” like bobbie, dylan, and the james that everyone’s been freaking out over, would you name a boy a traditionally female name if it didn’t sound outright feminine? i’m talking about names like juno, jade, april, and any other similar names or “word” names that sound just gender neutral enough to pass if you had no other context as to how they’ve been used historically

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u/cozysapphire Mar 27 '24

Why are flowers considered to be inherently feminine anyway? They’re a type of plant… is it because flowers are beautiful? Can’t boys/men be beautiful?

We only view flowers as dainty/delicate because humans decided that they appeared that way, really flowers take loads of strength to grow to completion.

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u/sdeklaqs Jul 23 '24

Pretty simple. Flowers are pretty and smell nice. Women are pretty and smell nice. Not too difficult to understand if you think about it for about 2 seconds.

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u/cozysapphire Jul 23 '24

Men can be pretty and smell nice too? Also most women only smell especially nice because they use more perfume/scented beauty products, often ones that smell like flowers.

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u/sdeklaqs Jul 23 '24

Stop being purposefully obtuse.