Running racism in America thread

Three Jens where I work. Out of 50 or so women.

 

Hell, some of the people I hang around with, if you say "Susan" you're going to be right most of the time.

 

Through junior high, there were four guys named Chris in most of my classes. One teacher called us by our last names. The guys didn't care, the girls were freaked out by it because it had never happened to them before.

 

This past year, we had two kids in the same grade with the same first and last name. It got really confusing when we'd talk about one of them to other staff members. Also had three girls with confusingly similar names.

 

When my daughter was 3 or 4, we signed her up for a gym class on Saturday mornings. Of the 8 boys, 3 were named Ethan. One was the only African-American, one was super tall and the other had blonde hair. Because it was confusing when were talking about them, Mrs. W and I referred to them in our conversations as Black Ethan, Tall Ethan and Blonde Ethan. One morning at the end of class, my daughter was on a swing when one boy ran right up to her and she accidentally just leveled the kid with a two footed kick. She is really upset and between sobs says quite loudly to the group around her, “I hurt Black Ethan. I hurt Black Ethan.”

 

I'm going to guess that your wife was born in the 70s, because that is when that name was quite popular (were I born a girl, that would have been my name). As it was, there were four Brians (including me) in a class of 27 throughout elementary school - also a popular name in 1976.

 

More inciteful commentary from the expert of everything.

 

Same with my Jenn, who is Jenn, not Jen. Or Jennifer.

Never Jenny. ... even though I do it to tease her sometimes.

 

Correct. And I was told it would have been my name as well if I were a girl.