If you married an entomologist and get upset about that, it's kinda on you.
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Are entomologists known for withholding information from their SO?
Bug related information? Yes
He probably should have been honest and upfront about it, but he also named their kid after something he obviously loves, and I think that's great. If she loved the name before knowing its origin, she should love it even more for being associated with something that at least one parent thinks is beautiful.
I mean it's a beautiful name, who really cares if it's named after a genus of Cicadas? There are worse sounding "normal" names out there. Plus it's named after OP's passion, I think that shows a lot of love
What's wrong with Cicadas anyway?
The noise. The eyes.
The insatiable love of hand meat…
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Am I The Butt Face?
Damn did Reddit go and censor "Am I The Asshole?"
Nah, there are just a bunch of alternate subs that people made after disliking the moderation.
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In Maori, Maua means "we", or "both of us". It's also shorthand for "we share similar beliefs".
Could have gone that route.
I mean I have said I would want to name my kid Nodo-Chinko. It's the Japanese word for the Uvula but it more directly translates to "throat penis"....
So he could have done way worse.
throat penis
I now have a new term for the uvula, thanks Japan!
I've always been partial to the name Pubert myself. It's pronounced "Pube-air."
I mean チンコ (chinko) is still censored on at least TV, so I think it's a little disingenuous to say it's the word. The actual word is 口蓋垂 ( こうがいすい - kougaisui) whose kanji mean something like mouth, cover, and zig-zaggy thing (specifically a type of Shinto zig-zag paper design, according to my dictionary).
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Idk it's not the worst name ever. Definitely sounds like a "kooky millennial parents wanted an interesting name" name. But there's worse. Much worse. He should've told her where it came from though, kinda a dumb thing to not involve your wife in. You know. The name of her child.
TBH I don't know how the relationship got this far if she hates bugs so much.
More precisely, how has the relationship come this far without him knowing she hates all bugs?
I don't think it's on him for not knowing that when she agreed to marry an Entomologist. It's nobody's job to read their partner's mind, they need to communicate likes and dislikes during the courting phase and I'm sure there were plenty of opportunities to bring that topic up.
I'm not blaming him at all. Him being an Entomologist makes this all worse. She didn't even question where the name came from.
People make such a big deal of naming their kids. Just give them regular old names and call it a day. How about Paul? I guarantee everyone will feel indifferent to it, so it's a winner.
I wonder how Maua would feel if they named her Paul instead.
call it a day
If they were afraid that the name Moana might be bullied at school, then Day would maybe be even worse
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So many good names to reuse. I say we pull out some victorian names, we've gotten past the "that's my grandma" part of the cycle so it's about due pretty soon.
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I mean depending on their ethnic background naming the kid Moana would have been an issue for reasons besides being teased for being named after a disney princess.
If you can only name kids after your own ethnic background there's a lot of Richards/ Riciardos/Jeans/Jans/Johns/Stephen/Joris/Mubaraks/Etiennes out there that are mislabelings.
All of those examples are linguistic drift though.
Naming a white girl moana isn't the same as some guy named Peter and his russian buddy Pyotr realizing that their names derive from the same origin in Greek (or Aramaic depending on how much you wanna argue Kefa should count as the origin since Petros was a direct translation of it as a name)
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Are you saying that if one ethnicity uses a name another can't? If so, someone should inform all the Japanese people named after various white Disney characters (not that it's a huge group, but particularly around Frozen there were some Elsas and such).
No, just that it'll pretty offensive for the white folks that have made polynesian life hell since just after they found the Pacific to suddenly begin jacking their names and cultural aesthetics because of a fun movie.
This is the same shit as the dreadlocks debate, people are still getting discriminated against for this stuff, it ain't kosher to wear it like a costume while the people it originates from can't wear it without catching shit when it was theirs from the start.
Issues around "black hair" (I think is the most common word for it, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here) are certainly real and depressing.
I still don't think naming a child after a name you happen to like is so problematic (well, unless the name you like is something like 'Hitler' or will otherwise cause trauma and issues for the child). If using another culture's name is a bad kind of cultural appropriation, then either nearly everyone or almost no one is guilty of this (the former because people move and cultures merge and split, the latter being a reductionist take that all human genetics come from basically the same place and/or a "pre-world" language family).
I think cultural appropriation itself is a bit of a weird one. You have people like most Japanese who encourage people to wear kimono and other Japanese styles. I assume that's true in a lot of the world (I just happen to be more familiar with the Japanese side having lived here for about a decade). But is wearing clothing cultural appropriation? Is cosplay? My Japanese friends and wife encourage me to wear yukata and such, but I generally am just my jeans-and-tshirt self.
Speaking of, were all those Japanese around the Meiji restoration wearing suits appropriating Western culture. Is "Western culture" even a unified culture? Cultures have always borrowed, stolen, and shared. I think if something is intentionally done in mockery or some other way, it's not OK. Other than that, I think a lot of people are angry, often on behalf of others who may or may not actually be angry themselves.
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He should show her this. The fact that it means “flowers” in Swahili might help. It won’t solve the trust issues, but it’s better than nothing.
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no one is going to know unless you tell them. there are worse things to be called.
Right? Like My name means "hill" in Gaelic/Celtic. No one would know or care until it was done as an ice breaker
Mine is rock.
“Me rock”
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It's really hard to put myself in the shoes of someone so against cicadas... Like I get that it's possible to not like them so intensely you wouldn't want your name to be inspired by them, but I'm just not sure how I'd have that person in my life.
Could’ve been any of the million awful names that have popped up over the last decade…
Aliviyah, Ashlynn, Brynlee, Andreanna, Alyviana, Camdyn
Need I go on?
Who the fuck names their kid without googling it
People who don't care what other think? I don't think people googled names they like in the 1900's
Well she obviously does care.
People who trust their husband, shame on them
Bullshit.
You're making a joint decision that will last a lifetime. Both are expected to contribute and understand
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Lmfao u married a snowflake
"If it makes you feel any better, I considered the scenario in which you found the impetus for the name Maua. So a few weeks ago I Googled the name to find what else it means, and apparently it's also a municipality in Brazil, pretty cool huh? Maybe we can take her there one day!"
A rose by any other name?
I was expecting there to be something more wrong with it while reading that, like its a particularly weird or ugly cicada or something 😂
Tbh though I think kids would be more likely to tease her about being named after a cicada than moana 😂
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