Naming their son "Jocelyn" or "Kay"?

Men should not have girls names. As a corollary, no man's name should end with female endings like "lynn", "lyn", or "ette".

As my dad used to say, "The parents should be spanked."

Interestingly, giving your child a name that would cause him hell in school (i.e., practically FORCE classmates to pick on them)
was a "thing" for The Greatest Generation -- the parents of the Baby Boomers, and the guys who fought World War 2.

Modern generations might be idiots in some ways -- but at least they don't do this. They do other dumb things: e.g., give their kids last names for a first name, like Preston, Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton, Colton, Hunter, Addison, etc. And modern man-children name their kids after superheroes (like Logan, the real name of Wolverine in the X-men series). BUT THEY DON'T GIVE UNAMBIGUOUS GIRLS NAMES TO THEIR SONS.

Actually, even if a few modern idiots did give their son a girls name, it would be for DOGMATIC reasons -- they want to raise him genderless, because they're woke, etc. They'd have a reason -- their religion is wokeness. They don't believe in 2 genders. They are f****ts. They are horribly wrong yes, but it's their belief. THEY HAVE A REASON even if a bad one.

But what is the reason or excuse for these Greatest Generation morons for giving their sons a girls' name? Usually it's the classic "Daddy wanted a daughter." And what, Dad was such a big pouting baby that even after a son was delivered, he gave him a girls' name anyway out of stubbornness? Grow up, already! Try to think of your children instead of your dumb selfish self. They have to live with that name!

I think such parents will be judged by God for what they've done to their children. Think of all the emotional damage, the unending teasing/bullying, consequent effects on their personality/career/marriage choices, and how many of these children became perverts (s***mites and/or trans***uals) because they bore a girls' name. Names are an intimate part of WHO YOU ARE, and names have meaning!

Lot of bad names out there but Jocelyn isn't one of them. It's an old Frankish name, and a male name at that. Jocelyn's held bishoprics, fought side by side with Charlemagne, and in general helped install Christendom in pre/early feudal Europe. We should take it back. Same with Hilary.

You bring up a good point.

HOWEVER, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do".

We're not IN Frankish lands. Nor are we in pre/early feudal Europe. Is that hard for some people to understand? This is modern-day America (50's America, etc.) At no time was that a man's name *here*. I'm in my mid-40's and I've never met or heard of a male Jocelyn until recently. Why?

And on a related note, you have to be VERY CAREFUL about being the vanguard in "taking back" something. Let's take back the rainbow! Are you going to fly a rainbow flag in your front yard? Why not? Maybe because people will (quite reasonably) assume you are pro-LGBT?

The same for any other "taking back". Let's take back the original generic meaning (denotation, or "definition") of intercourse! Go ahead and tell people about your intercourse with the mailman. If they assume something false, that's THEIR problem, right?

Or start calling yourself a "Christian" (people will rightly assume you're protestant) or say you're just Catholic with no mention of Tradition or the Traditional Movement (people will rightly assume you're Novus Ordo, going along with the World, etc.)

No, I'm not a fan of "taking back" things that have been well conquered. Unless there's already a strong movement in place, and/or a good chance of success.

Remember the scene in LoTR where Denethor foolishly orders a small army to re-conquer that city overrun with entrenched orcs? That army was doomed from the beginning. That's what I think of "re-taking" things that have been long conquered, fully entrenched by the enemy, and one aims to re-conquer them with a small army at that!

It seems most prudent to rely on Saints' names, yes? Then again, as far as OT names go, there was a story a year or two ago of triplets somewhere in Africa (Christian but maybe not Catholic) named Shadrach, Meshach, and Abdenego. I wonder how those little boys reacted once they found out what happened in Daniel 3. I hope they learned to love that beautiful Canticle rather than dwell on the sentence imposed on those Biblical brothers.

After Mass this Sunday, recalling the Septuagesima sermon had my mind drift for a moment toward wondering whether there are any sports ball players named Denarius. A penny for the thoughts of whatever their parents must have been thinking. 

After Mass this Sunday, recalling the Septuagesima sermon had my mind drift for a moment toward wondering whether there are any sports ball players named Denarius. A penny for the thoughts of whatever their parents must have been thinking.

Actually Denarius would be an improvement on some of those football player names.  (De Vonte, De Shawn,etc. At least Denarius means "Cash" which is another popular name!)

...You just KNOW they pronounce it TIE-RAY or some such ebonics ...

There's a skit by Key & Peele called Substitute Teacher where he pronounces everyone's name in totally wrong ways like that.  I'd post it, except it has a lot of bad language.  He pronounces Jacqueline "Jay Quellin", Denise as "Dee Nice" and Aaron as "Ay-ay-ron". 


On a different note, not regarding names, but I know people raising young boys with very girly hairdos. 

There is a character in a fantasy novel called Teatime but insists his name is pronounced Tay-a-tee-may. It is MEANT to be silly.
When the Twilight Zone keeps seeping in through all the weakened points of reality - created by the insane on this side of the curtain - it is an almost given that anything stupid is taken as a given once it reaches us.

Now how about naming your children Twila and Gawain? I dont know if it is something in the water, but rights to drachmas, there IS something in the air, as in spirits.

Shakespeare has something to say, when men are not men, and women not women, and essentially who is behind it all:

Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe topful
Of direst cruelty!