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9:15am
May 23, 2014
nectaresque said: When I first read your name on your other blog I liked it because Mel sounded to me like it can be both female or male (but I’m not a native English speaker)…
Yes that’s one reason I’ve gone by it off and on for quite a long time, because it doesn’t actually signify a gender either way in English. My friend persuaded me to use Amelia, though, as the actual legal name, because she thinks I deal with so much prejudice already in too many other areas (including looking gender-ambiguous in various ways already), that having a gender-ambiguous legal name could be life-threatening. She told me some scenarios where that could be the case, and I agreed, so we compromised that my name will be Amelia legally, but that I’ll go by Mel everywhere anyway.
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spikyprofile reblogged this from clatterbane and added:I don’t think of Graham as a surname used as a first name so much as a (primarily) first name that sometimes occurs as a...
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I also think that’s pretty region/culture dependent. I mean, I keep getting surprised at the number of I guess dominant...
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withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from spikyprofile and added:In the USA, it can go either way. I think a lot of names start out mostly male and then go towards mostly female. One of...
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madeofpatterns reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:Huh! I never noticed that! It was in a different category in my head.
frazzledlimebeast likes this- nectaresque said: Oh, so that was a bit of a reading comprehension misfire on my part then… ^_^ Thanks for clearing that up!
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