Gender neutrality names
Today, gendered names have become a very a sensitive topic for many parents. Many parents would argue that their children should be able to choose their names once they are old enough to decide their gender. Lev Vygotsky argues in his book “For-Giving”, that humans have made the biggest humanity mistake by giving babies gendered names. Humanity has defined the world to be “male.” We have labeled everything superior to us to be male.
Parents label their child with a gendered name that name automatically comes attached with what a boy should be when they grow up. The boy will grow up to like the color blue and play with toy trucks. The same would also go for the girls, with a girl name Barbie’s and the color pink comes attached to that name.
So who is to blame for the society to have a “masculine” world?
Parents have been the one who have masculinized the society by giving babies gendered names. Already inducing how their child should act because of their gender.
· Parents have obliged their children(boys) to be masculine, while girls being feminine.
· Parents have obliged their children to become masculine because they cannot be seen as inferior than anyone else in the society. Being masculine is the way society is structured. If society had a gender it would be male. It would be male because a male is to be strong and smart and what not.
· Parents have taught boys to take the role of their father which is commonly thought to be a standard sign of money, opposed to being defined as human.
· Girls will eventually take the role of their mother which is “giving”
In many places around the world there has been an increase of parents giving their babies gendered neutral names.
Today many have accepted that males are the dominant ones among humans. Many parents have been taking this issue very delicate. Many parents have come to the conclusion that babies should be given baby neutral names, and let their kids define their gender once they are capable of doing so.
In Sweden there was a case were both parents did no identify the child’s gender due to the simple fact that the parents did not want their child to be dominate on gender more than the other. The child’s has been identified as Pop and this child had both boy and girl toys as well as boy and girl clothing and no one not if the school staff knew this child’s gender. The mother chose for her child to be able to choose their own gender because she did not want her child to be the typical parent who gives their child a gendered name and a color attached to it.
How has humanity made baby gendered names to become such a controversy?
Should having baby gendered names matter?
In my opinion, no. parents should be able to name their children with gendered names if they’d like. It would be a different story if the parent taught their child not to not be “sexist” and dominate one gender more than the other. Parents should teach their child that both genders are equally the same. The only reason why society is masculinized is because we have allowed that by teaching little boys that they have to take the role of their father, and or become more superior than him. Girls have been taught are their life to be as feminine as possible and like the color pink.
In 2015 many parents gave their children gendered neutral names as well as celebrities. Also for the same reason that they want their child to be gender neutral and let their child decide their true gender as they grow up. Parents wants their children to be able to be identified as they would like and basically not labeling them with a boy or girl name.
With the increase of baby gendered names, will this resolve the masculinity of the society? And will it make up for the big mistake humanity has made?
