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I'm not calling for censorship. Growing a thicker skin is a virtue. But it'd be nice if the people promulgating the trend also stopped to think about it.

> You mean like "a John"? Or "Dick"? Or "a big Charlie"?

This has been the case for so long that parents have had ample time to stop naming their children this.

They recently renamed a nearby bridge in Georgia from "Dick Hunter Memorial Bridge" [1,2].

[1] http://ethunter1.blogspot.com/2006/03/hunter-bridge-part-2.h...

[2] https://thegate.boardingarea.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/...

parent echelon 5 years ago

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