This is just so inline with something I hadn’t been able to cobble into a coherent verbal repose. I run into folks like this all the time in my current where-abouts. Thanks to metafilter.com again.
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It’s infantile to flout the standard purely for the attention and then complain when you get the inevitable attention. If your “self-identification” is actually predicated on a confrontational dynamic, then a negative response is just as appropriate as a positive one. She said, herself, that her name choice is a political expression. There is absolutely nothing rude about rejecting someone’s politics, no matter how they choose to express them. She is free to call herself anything she wants. And we’re free to say: Stunt name is stunty. Also kind of trite and boring.
posted by It’s Raining Florence Henderson at 11:29 AM on September 30