The thing is, though, that today odd spellings are the norm rather than the exception. You can’t look in the birth announcements without seeing names littered with stray Ks and Ys in some parent’s vain attempt to make their child “unique”.
There is an abusive element in it, though, since having a “unique” name means that little Kynnydy will have to spell her name, and pronounce it, for everyone she meets, for the rest of her life. It’s not much of a burden, true, but it’s one that could easily be avoided.
(Re spanking the six-month-old), I said something like “Jimmy’s too little to understand”, and she said “Oh, he knows.” I couldn’t convince her otherwise. She was raised with younger sisters (and their babies) – I had an older brother and some babysitting experience. I’m sure she thought I didn’t know what I was talking about.
I haven’t seen her since (it was 40+ years ago) and I don’t know how Jimmy turned out.
Hasn’t Dr. Phil or Oprah (or somebody these pageant moms might listen to) weighed in on toddler pageants?
Yes, it’s kind of silly to change the spelling on a common name. Why not make up a name wholesale like Temena or Lectic?
Hey, you don’t have to tell me, but I have the added benefit of knowing immediately, who is a moron, and who actually pays attention to personal details by seeing who is baffled by my first name, “Erek”, and who actually remembers to spell it correctly, and who doesn’t need to be corrected like five times, “i-k?”, no “e-k”, “i-c-k?”, no “e-k”. It really does come in handy and gives me some insight into who is an imbecile, who is a narcissist, who is hard of hearing, who is not really paying attention, and who is kind considerate and attentive when I speak to them.
Heh, they’d have to attack the use of toddlers in acting/modeling too. That’s multibillion a year business that puts food on the table for millions of people. Besides hasn’t Oprah gussied up toddlers so they could preen on national TV?
My name is 3 letters, fairly common, and people invariably can’t spell it, can’t say it, or both. I swear I can’t remember the last time someone saw my name written down and pronounced it correctly, or heard it and spelled it correctly. It’s truly astonishing.
Gigi Yep, that happens with me too. My name is only FOUR letters long too, which makes it extra funny. And they always ask me to spell my last name which is a fairly common word that people use in other contexts, and I am like, “Oh man, it is so not my last name you are going to mangle.”
Wow, my little bad TV thread wandered into religious debate and funny names. If we just add race or gay/bisexual/transgender issues, we will have a hat trick.
The last episode I saw was crazy, but didn’t come up (or down, I suppose) to the standards of the lady with the 2 week old. Just ordinary crazy.
Yes, I saw the ep where the mom pitted her twins against each other and clearly preferred one of them. “BreAnn is pretty and AshLyn is …AshLyn”. Nice. I see very bad things in their futures, assuming one doesn’t kill the other.
Did anyone see the episode with Madison, whose pageant name is “Tootie” and who speaks about “Tootie” in the third person. Her mom seems to kind of resent her “I’m not Mom here, I’m Tooties assistant. Slave is more like it” So quit…she clearly has other interests.
Can you say you’ve “won a total of $10k” is you’ve spent over $20k on dresses and pageant coaches and travel and entry fees etc.?
Last night? After putting on the fake hair, fake nails, and fake teeth (!), makeup and costume, one of the girls went out to, as her mother put it, show them “the real her”. :smack:
I’ve always been so disgusted by the show’s premise I’ve never actually seen it… But it sounds like this hilarious Mr. Show sketch is getting closer and closer to reality all the time.
The difference is, theoretically, the goths and punks are doing to themselves. Nothing wrong with creating an external image that coincides to your internal image. Definitely something wrong with enforcing it on a toddler.
