I have had at least a couple dozen, "oh you're a GIRL!" moments in my life, upon meeting someone who has only heard my androgynous forename. This is because Alex is, while a totally normal and acceptable name for a chick, more common among my male contemporaries. Fine by me, but it leaves me with an interesting decision every time I sign off an email to someone I don't know or a blog comment or anything in the anonymous abyss of the Internet (particularly interesting in light of the issue of
misogyny online). [incidentally: this summer, a male Alex counselor showed up at camp halfway through the summer and I made it very clear that I would not be appending any sort of initial to the end of my name to distinguish myself, since I was there first, but that he could do that and I could be the original Alex. It didn't work out too well; I was Girl Alex, he was Asian Alex. we were also good friends and he once helped remove a live bat from my hallway at 3am so I'm not hating.]
But some bullshit I can't stand is when girls named Alex feel the need to dick around with their name to make it more interesting and unique. Listen, ladies, I got over this by 8th grade. It's not like you're a Jessica or an Ashley or a Jennifer, okay? Your name does not need to be sexed up.
Here is what I'm talking about:
WHO DOES THIS BEEZY THINK SHE IS? You don't pronounce XX any different than you pronounce X. This is a little cute because maybe the implication is that she is a female Alex and hence has two X chromosomes but I don't think that was the intention.
Why do these girls tend to also be raven haired singer/songwriters who look like they probably have Disney endorsements?
Apparently, Alexx Woods is a fictional character on CSI: Miami. Wait, what? The only thing lamer than modding one's own Alex name is modding that of one's fictional character.
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SONNET XXXIX FOR KATIE
I went downtown, saw Katie in the nude
on Common Avenue, detracted soltitude
as it were, like a dream-state rosely hued,
like no one else could see her; DAMN! I phewed;
was reciprokelly then, thank heaven, viewed,
bestowed unique hard-on! but NOT eschewed,
contrair-ee-lee, she took a somewhat rude
'n readidy attude of Sex Prelude; it BREWED!
And for a start, i hiccuped "Hi!", imbued
with Moooood! She toodledooed: "How queued
your awe-full specie-ally-tee, Sir Lewd,
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Casualidad sopla la sangre
de alguno señor desconocido
durante los pocos restantes
momentos del resplandor de faroles
que se vislumbran tras el follaje
flameando de las obsesiónes
igual efimero como gotas
del cinzano de la soledad –
En aquel tiempo me levanta
dentro uno incidente avejentado
que en seguida palidece
al camouflaje de abstraccion;
chica, nadie conoce que tus grisos
ojos significan aún; con todo
el sueño que hube evacuado
tu escudriñas nuevamente.
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Consider Sex and time, procreation, reincarnation. Trigonometry! I envisage the time axis as the repetitive tangens function. Do you see what I mean? What can be tentatively derived from this notion? Clue: orgasm AND birth pangs at tan 0.
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LOL....perhaps better than Alexx with 2 x's would be Alexxx, because than the implication would be far more explit (and thus, no longer an implication!)! And why should you have the "GIRL Alex" moniker, when isn't "Asian Alex" every bit as adrogynous as Alex?!
indisputably, but try telling that to a bunch of 15 year olds.
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