FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 days agoEverybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problemmessage-squaremessage-square123fedilinkarrow-up1720arrow-down149
arrow-up1671arrow-down1message-squareEverybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problemFreshParsnip@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square123fedilink
minus-squareHeartyOfGlass@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·3 days agoChange your name to make yourself more palatable to a wider audience? Good. Change your name to make yourself more palatable for yourself? Bad, apparently.
minus-squareArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoPen names are ancient, too. Mark Twain? Real name is Samuel Clements. Charles Dickens used the pen name Boz for some reason, and Stephen King used multiple pen names, especially early in his career.
minus-squareSimulation6@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoUh, Boz was the illustrator for Dickens.
minus-squareArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoI was mistaken. Thank you for your correction.
minus-squarethermal_shock@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 days agoAnd still affects no one. People bitching about stuff that has literally nothing to do with them, worrying about everyone else’s genitals.
Change your name to make yourself more palatable to a wider audience? Good.
Change your name to make yourself more palatable for yourself? Bad, apparently.
Pen names are ancient, too. Mark Twain? Real name is Samuel Clements. Charles Dickens used the pen name Boz for some reason, and Stephen King used multiple pen names, especially early in his career.
Uh, Boz was the illustrator for Dickens.
I was mistaken. Thank you for your correction.
And still affects no one. People bitching about stuff that has literally nothing to do with them, worrying about everyone else’s genitals.