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If you're tempted to call your poor daughter Honey, please can you put Honor on the birth cert and nn her Honey 'til you go off the name Honey

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 24/04/2009 19:53

Thank you. That is all

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Greensleeves · 25/04/2009 21:01

"backe into a corner"

I do think you might be losing perspective a teeny bit

Honey is quite a popular name choice these days - it's not even unusual!

and if you're really worried that your daughter might attract a lascivious thought from a middle-aged man when being interviewed for work, I suggest you start digging yourselves a nice big bunker and filling it with food....

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 20:59

At least a Will can introduce himself as WIlliam or he can use Bill or Liam. He's not backed into a corner like a Honey.

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 20:57

Lockets, somebody is thinking of calling their child Honey.. If that child has Honey on her birth cert I'll have done her a massive favour.

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Greensleeves · 25/04/2009 20:55

wouldn't occur to me to view Honey as "a sexual name", especially in relation to a little child

it makes me think of Winnie the Pooh and other cutesy sweetnesses - not my cup of tea but not dreadful either and a perfectly valid choice.

Honor on the other hand - I do TRY not to be rude about names on here, but......

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 20:55

Solid, Honey is a name that reminds me of the sex trade, not sex per se. The two are entirely different and I make no apology for thinking that. To confuse the two, now that's dysfunctional.

Also, I'm not the only one who makes the link. If a parent wants to disregard the fact that a fair proportion of society will automatically make that link, then nobody can stop them, but it's hardly a leg UP is it.

When my daughter goes for interviews in yrs to come I don't want the smutty middle-aged wanker interviewing her to be thinking, phwoar, can just see her round a pole. It just doesn't help does it?

All things being equal, give your daughter advantages rather than disadvantages.

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solidgoldshaggingbunnies · 25/04/2009 20:49

You know, Mrs MargotB, an obsession with how awful sex is and how no one should make any reference to it ever, is a bit of a sign of sexual dysfunction. People who can be bothered to 'dislike such a sexual name' really really need to get a fucking life.

Greensleeves · 25/04/2009 20:49

what a strange and inappropriate thread title

Honor is a bloody awful name.

solidgoldshaggingbunnies · 25/04/2009 20:48

I don't think Honey is a particularly porn-star name. And if I met someone who would (for instance) avoid a doctor or solicitor because they thought that the person had an 'inappropriate' or 'common' name then I would think that the avoiding person was an ignorant, ill-mannered twat with not enough going on in his/her life.

Also please bear in mind that whatever you call your child, there will be a stage in that child's life when s/he moans at you for choosing that name and insists on being called something else.

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 20:45

Duffy, you're missing the point.

I wouldn't judge a grown up Honey when she'd grown up and proved herself, but I'd be astounded her parents were so naive as to be unaware of the name's sexual connotations, amazed by their denial; thinking that only their opinion on the name matters, and their arrogance for wanting to control other people's not unsurprising reaction and dislike of such a sexual name.

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DesperateHousewifeToo · 25/04/2009 20:41

I know a child called 'snow'.

Quite like 'Honey' but I would worry that people would think it was a term of endearment and wonder what her real name was.

{Haven't seen other thread by the way}

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 20:39

Perhaps silly is subjective, but why choose any name that such a large significant proportion of people (30%?) found inappropriately sexual? It shows such a head in the sand attitude to some of the harsher realities of life.. I agree with Jajas, I didn't wrack my brain looking for insults about the name Honey. It was an involuntary thought process....

If I went to my doctor and she were called Honey Bee, I'd just think, poor woman going through life with that shite name, but I wouldn't assume she was less professional or qualified.

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purpleduck · 25/04/2009 19:22

tigerdriver You are totally wrong. The appropriate middle name for "Poopy" is of course "Pants".

Obviously!

Jajas why giving a name you LOVE to your child selfish? Surely you wouldn't give your child a name you HATE?

DuffyFluckling · 25/04/2009 19:09

No, but you can help how you react.

The implication here is that it's fine to not take someone seriously because you don't like their name.

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DuffyFluckling · 25/04/2009 19:04

But silly is so subjective.

If you think Honey is a silly name then don't call your daughter Honey, but why then make assumptions about a person based on their name?

I just find it so depressing that so many people judge a person based on the fact that they don't like their name. And that's really all it is, you don't like it.

I bought my house from a woman called Dhalia. Would you have had to request a different agent, preferably called Jennifer? Or would you have met the nice, smartly dressed young woman and managed to put your prejudices aside and "take her seriously" despite her being called Dhalia which isn;t "a proper name"?

I should probably parp on this thread. I really find it sad that so many people are so horrid about people's names. I genuinely didn't know that people were like this when I gave my daughter an unusual name.

subtlemouse · 25/04/2009 18:51

In Frasier, there is a Dr Honey Snow who is a blonde, stacked, airhead 'lets all hug each other' shrink.

Anyone thinking of calling a potential adult Honey should watch it and see the responses before going for it. (And even more so if the poor child turns out plain...)

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 18:41

Exactly Seeker, Honor wouldn't be my taste, but that's the worst I could say about it. It's not too silly or too sexual or anything. I just suggested it as being a solution really.

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