#anyway name your sons shannon. i want this one back. also i'm sorry it's just a cute name. uncommon and easy to spell and say

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i guess i think about "gender neutral" names a lot because of my mountains of ocs (i actually had to do some contorting with some of them because i was running out of free spots without conflicting with my other ocs or fandom names), and i was specifically thinking about mine (because i have to abandon the brief charm of being unintentionally misgendered by office ladies in the 90s because tbh shannon hasn't been a boyish name for a long time), and then i got actually served an article about it from my browser that uh. man actually a lot of names that read girly to our modren sensibilities were quite masculine 3 or 4 generations ago, and names that get too much girl on them almost never go back to neutral or masculine, and you really only have an enduring neutral name if there's relative demographic parity, like "alex."

guess i never realized that that's the way it goes