# Amy Schumer changes her son’s name

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 15, 2020, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-schumer-changes-her-son-s-name/851829 "2020-04-15T06:33:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-schumer-changes-her-son-s-name/851829/21 "2020-04-16T15:19:21Z")

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> [@DKW](#):
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> Jeez Kira Nerys…I understand wanting to avoid giving the child an embarrassing name, but I always thought avoiding the obvious blunders was good enough. Like “Seymour Butts”, or “Hugh Jass”, or “Amanda Hugginkiss”. (C’mon, we’ve all watched The Simpsons! :)) Now we have to watch out for **legitimate medical terms??** Do you have any _idea_ just how many terms covering all the diseases, dysfunctions, disorders, imbalances, malforms, adverse conditions etc. etc. etc. there freaking _are??_ I took one little medical transcription course once, and by the end I felt like I’d been through three seasons of Chicago Hope.
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> And what’s with the judgement? “HOW could she have possibly missed THAT?” Well, perhaps it’s because she honestly had no freaking idea what a genital fissure is, and it sure as hell isn’t a matter of intelligence or worldliness because _I_ didn’t know either. How far is a parent expected to _go?_ Should she bring in experts? Run everything through five Internet databases?
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> Maybe it’s just my work in public housing. Believe me, if you don’t learn to get used to funny names _very_ quicckly, you won’t last a month.
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> (My mother once had a professor named Charles Barclay. Every time I think about it, it strikes me how that’s actually a much more appropriate name for a quiet white middle-aged academic than…you know.)

True, “fissure” isn’t exactly an every day word, but “Gene Attell” said out loud a couple of times seems pretty obvious to me. The fissure part is just a dubious bonus.

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**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-schumer-changes-her-son-s-name/851829/22 "2020-04-16T15:57:15Z")

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Obligatory [SNL skit](https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/baby-names/n10279)

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