Pet Peeves

[A Budgie she/her]

2 hours ago, Nathrangking said:

People who are so obstinate in their reading habits to the point of dismissiveness and even outright rudeness bother me to no end. (I once went to school with someone who was snobbish as far as his reading habits were concerned and lets just say it was extremely unpleasant.)

I feel you. I mean, I know what I like, and I'm sure they do too, but there's no harm in trying. If they really don't like it, they can stop reading, but at least they should try.

[Draginon he/him]

Here's one: Names that make you go "That's a boy/girl name?" Two significant ones for me are Ichigo and Sissel. The first time I encountered Ichigo was the anime Bleach so I kind of associate it with boys more despite the name meaning strawberry. Sissel just does not sound like a girls name. The first time I encountered it was the game Ghost Trick and when I first heard after that that it was a name for girls and not guys I was just thinking a mental 'what?!' since it sounds like a guy name from a European nation.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

2 hours ago, Draginon said:

Here's one: Names that make you go "That's a boy/girl name?" Two significant ones for me are Ichigo and Sissel. The first time I encountered Ichigo was the anime Bleach so I kind of associate it with boys more despite the name meaning strawberry. Sissel just does not sound like a girls name. The first time I encountered it was the game Ghost Trick and when I first heard after that that it was a name for girls and not guys I was just thinking a mental 'what?!' since it sounds like a guy name from a European nation.

Should it matter if its a boy or girl name? 

[Calderis he/him]

1 hour ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

Should it matter if its a boy or girl name? 

Nope

[Sami she/her]

When you're at a concert and this little kid starts walking around and making heaps of noise and the Mom is just sitting there letting him/her. Or worse, gives the kid chips in an extremely crackly bag.

Edited August 26, 2017 by Sami

[Draginon he/him]

9 hours ago, Darkness Ascendant said:

Should it matter if its a boy or girl name? 

Well some cultures and countries are still very gender separate when it comes to names so to the Japanese a boy being called Ichigo is as strange to them as people in the us naming their kid Apple.

[Penumbra]

7 hours ago, Draginon said:

Well some cultures and countries are still very gender separate when it comes to names so to the Japanese a boy being called Ichigo is as strange to them as people in the us naming their kid Apple.

I was so amazed when I found out girl's could be named Alex/Robin and guys could be named Maria etc, as I'd never encountered it where I'm from. Personally I love stuff like that though. 

Pet peeve: when people don't immediately wash their cups/utensils in a job/university kitchen area. It's okay if you're sloppy at home, but why you gotta bring your mess to me?

[Draginon he/him]

2 minutes ago, Penumbra said:

I was so amazed when I found out girl's could be named Alex/Robin and guys could be named Maria etc, as I'd never encountered it where I'm from. Personally I love stuff like that though. 

There's guys named Maria!?

[Penumbra]

Just now, Draginon said:

There's guys named Maria!?

People have different naming conventions all over the world I s'pose :B I like that names do not have to be assigned a gender as strictly as I grew up being told. I think my own name is pretty strictly stuck in one slot though hah.

[Draginon he/him]

4 minutes ago, Penumbra said:

People have different naming conventions all over the world I s'pose :B I like that names do not have to be assigned a gender as strictly as I grew up being told. I think my own name is pretty strictly stuck in one slot though hah.

Take Robin for instance, in England it's strictly a girl only name but everywhere else it's a boy only name. Maria though surprises me because it's just the Spanish way of saying Mary.

What do you have that's still one gender only?

[Erandeni he/him]

52 minutes ago, Draginon said:

Maria though surprises me because it's just the Spanish way of saying Mary.

It surprise me too, altough I had a friend whose second name was María.It wouldn't be so weird that It'd be a first name too.

Edited August 26, 2017 by Idealistic

[Sunbird she/her]

@Draginon I'm an American and I think of Robin as mainly a girl's name. (Someone in my church congregation is named Robin and it's a woman.) But I can also accept it as a male name, mostly because of Batman's sidekick.

[Draginon he/him]

5 hours ago, Idealistic said:

It surprise me too, altough I had a friend whose second name was María.It wouldn't be so weird that It'd be a first name too.

I do know plenty of people of Spanish heritage use both gendered names for middle names no matter the gender but I've never heard of anyone naming their son Maria.

4 hours ago, Sunbird said:

@Draginon I'm an American and I think of Robin as mainly a girl's name. (Someone in my church congregation is named Robin and it's a woman.) But I can also accept it as a male name, mostly because of Batman's sidekick.

I've seen it as a unisex name myself so it's never been one that caught me off guard. What did surprise me was learning most people think it's a gender exclusive name, like Bob and Alice.

Edited August 27, 2017 by Draginon

[Jondesu he/him]

We chose names for our kids specifically to be gendered, just because we don't like the ambiguity of reading someone's name and not knowing whether they're a boy or a girl.  We passed over a couple names specifically for that reason, in fact, even though we kinda liked them (though I think we still liked the names we settled on the most anyways). Caleb, Elanor, and Grant are all fairly consistently gendered names as far as I know.

[A Budgie she/her]

Re: gendered names and getting confused...
Honestly, if you don't know, or if their name is gendered but you can't tell from appearance, just use 'they'...

[Draginon he/him]

1 hour ago, A Budgie said:

Re: gendered names and getting confused...
Honestly, if you don't know, or if their name is gendered but you can't tell from appearance, just use 'they'...

It's a different story if you're reading the name versus meeting them face to face. Like when I first heard of the Alcatraz series I thought Bastille was going to be a dude until I found out that she's a girl. And if you'd never heard of, or seen a picture of, Alice Cooper would you have thought that they were a guy?

[Erandeni he/him]

3 hours ago, Draginon said:

And if you'd never heard of, or seen a picture of, Alice Cooper would you have thought that they were a guy?

That happened to me with Tracy Hickman, I always thought that the Dragonlance was written by two women, and then I found out that Hickman is a man.

[Draginon he/him]

1 hour ago, Idealistic said:

That happened to me with Tracy Hickman, I always thought that the Dragonlance was written by two women, and then I found out that Hickman is a man.

Funnily my mom assumed Terry Pratchett was a woman because of his name.

[ParadoxicalZen he/him]

On 27/08/2017 at 7:04 AM, Draginon said:

Take Robin for instance, in England it's strictly a girl only name but everywhere else it's a boy only name. Maria though surprises me because it's just the Spanish way of saying Mary.

What do you have that's still one gender only?

I wouldn't say strictly a girl's name, as my best mate has a brother called robin. Predominantly a girl's name, yes but not strictly...which is ironic considering one of our famous folktale heroes was named robin and is (presumed to be) male.....unless *tinfoilhat* Robin of the Hood was actually a woman...and maid Maria-n was actually a bloke in drag  that would make for an interesting story actually 

[Draginon he/him]

1 hour ago, ParadoxicalZen said:

I wouldn't say strictly a girl's name, as my best mate has a brother called robin. Predominantly a girl's name, yes but not strictly...which is ironic considering one of our famous folktale heroes was named robin and is (presumed to be) male.....unless *tinfoilhat* Robin of the Hood was actually a woman...and maid Maria-n was actually a bloke in drag  that would make for an interesting story actually 

Or Robin was a lesbian!

I might've generalized the strictness of the name, I just remember reading somewhere on differences between America and England that one difference being that it's more a boy name in the US but considered more a girl name across the pond. It was something that struck me odd considering who Robin Hood is.

[AngelEy3 he/him]

When people at work don't fix a problem as it comes along. I work in a group home and came in tonight to a note about ants on the bathroom floor... Why not just crush and sweep them and then mop the floor like I did? 

[AngelEy3 he/him]

On 8/2/2017 at 11:51 AM, Draginon said:

This peeve is on the personal side, when I'm talking to my mom calmly or neutral and for some reason she thinks I'm irritated or angry. And no, I don't have Asperger's.

I have that happen to me quite often. You can be speaking as cool as the underside of a rock and some people will always take you for being angry if you happen to be questioning or complaining in any way. 

[Draginon he/him]

10 hours ago, AngelEy3 said:

I have that happen to me quite often. You can be speaking as cool as the underside of a rock and some people will always take you for being angry if you happen to be questioning or complaining in any way. 

It makes you wonder what the other persons problem is.

Though with my mom she tends to remember people speaking in a more jerkish/rude manner than they really did, so I'm not sure if she has a disorder there or not.

[Sunbird she/her]

Utahraptor is me. Take care of your personal grooming at home or in the bathroom, people! Ugh.

[Shqueeves]

Weird pet peeve, but the stoplight near my house. It can take almost 10 minutes until i can legally cross the street. Side note, but nobody notices jaywalking at 6:50 in the morning