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[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

Recently, I've been loving equigender (is that the word? I'm completely blanking haha) names on boys. Morgan, Stacey, Ashley, Dana, Quinn and Tracy are on my favorite boy's name list now. Morgan and Quinn are probably in my top 10. What do you think? Any names along the same line?

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[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

i like morgan and quinn, but more so for girls. i know that the rest of your names were traditionally for boys, but these days..i feel like it's kind of cruel to the kid since they're definitely seen as girl's names.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

hmm..it may be hypocritical, but i think it's definitely harder for a boy to grow up with a girl's name than vice versa. that's not fair, but that's just how it is.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

hmm..i don't know about that just because most people aren't willing to give their sons girls' names like ashley, stacy, courtney, etc. but hopefully you're right.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

Boys' gender roles and gender-specific behavior are policed a lot more heavily and defined a lot more narrowly than girls' in Western society. It's sort of a societal norm that a boy with a "girls'" name like Ashley or Stacy will have a harder time than a girl with a "boys'" name like Elliott or Avery. It's "cool" for a girl to "act like a tomboy" (and many a young woman proclaims that she was a 'tomboy' when she were younger, or that all her friends are guys) but it's not cool for a boy to "act like a girl" (young men don't reflect fondly on acting like a girl as a youngster or brag about having a lot of girl friends).

I mean, there are all sorts of cultural reasons for that.

(I study gender role development for a living so this is really interesting to me.)

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

I don't know...I would agree with you for names like Kelly which i haven't seen on a boy ever, but all of the names I listed are ones I've personally met men or boys named, so I feel like they aren't completely out of the blue.

[skate97.livejournal.com]

I think it depends on where you live, too. I live in Boston and there are lots of Irish and Kelly isn't really uncommon for a boy around here...