203
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
203 points (95.5% liked)
Mildly Interesting
22564 readers
239 users here now
This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.
This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
Just post some stuff and don't spam.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Why are all those red names so utterly horrible?
Are you seriously calling your boy Gunner? Why not... idk... Carpet? Or Computer? Or Bottle?
Baylor sounds like a low level boss that you have to fight to finish the tutorial.
They're riffing off of traditional masculine naming conventions. Gunner is associated with the traditional male role of aggressor (compare, Hunter, Victor, Dominic), and is also a job (compare, Carter, Taylor, Mason).
Honestly, I think it'll age better than Baylor or Kyson.
I mean... I get it. But in a country where mass shootings are the norm, calling your son gunner is... a bit out of touch?
Baylor on the other hand is just plain horrible.
Yeah, 'a bit out of touch' is a good starting point when talking about conservatives usually...
hey, Baylor is a good hard-working children's name
those hay bales won't make themselves once all the farm hands are in concentration camps
It's a cultural thing. In some red areas guns are seen as a cultural signifier. It's straight up the same as naming a kid Christian or after a virtue or any other name that's on the nose religious, but with rural cultural values instead of just Christian ones.
I mean, a gunner is a job in the military. Not much different than naming your kid Gunars, which means warrior. Gunman would be more on the nose. I'm just saying, when I hear Gunner's mom yelling at him not to spill his soda in the car in the grocery store parking lot in 15 years, I'll be like, "yep, that's a normal name."
Also, mass shootings arent the norm. They are extremely rare.
But yes, naming your kid "gun" to "own the libs" is indeed cringe as fuck.
Naming your kid after a job is cringe.
agreed
My half-brother is named Ranger. 🙄
Please tell me he lives in Texas
It's going to be a hard life for a lot of innocent boys after their parents effectively tattooed "punch me, I'm a douchebag" on them.
Edit: Clarified "innocent," obviously the parents are the issue.
I doubt they'll have much more trouble than other kids. Names are names, and most people accept that you just get whatever name you get and can't do much about it. All the girls named Reagan seem to be doing just fine.
I read an analysis once of how happy people were with their names. The trend was that the more unusual the name was, the less happy the owner was with it, up until you got to the very popular names, where happiness declined again - but it still wasn't a huge deal. A reasonable assumption is that most people feel quite neutrally about their names until it causes them some inconvenience - people mispronouncing it, people misspelling it, or being confused with other people with the same name.
The only deviation from this trend was that people who were named after admirable family members tended to be actively happy about their names.
Lesson being - when naming your kid, consider naming them after your great uncle who died heroically in the war. Failing that, just get a list of the top 100 baby names, discard the top 10, discard any duplicates with minor spelling deviations, and then just pick one at random.
I assume it's just an alternate (i.e. made up) spelling of Gunnar which is a Scandinavian name. I knew I guy named Gunnar once.
Conservatives are not broadly known for their creativity.
On the other hand, Baylor, Tripp, Briggs, Hattie, Gracelynn, and Wrenly sound amazing
Gunner is 100% a common dog's name, often given to gun dogs. I feel sorry for those kids.
Imagine your statement, but change red to blue.
Would that be okay to say?
Yes! Absolutely yes! Gunner is a horrible name, as is Baylor. If you think this is political, that's your problem. It's not my fault if the most horrible names are mostly red.
And what’s wrong with the name Gunnar?
It’s a Germanic/Norse name that’s been in use for thousands of years, but some ignorant American thinks it’s horrible and needs to go?
I said Gunner, not Gunnar, but go on, I guess?
Edit: bonus point for calling me "ignorant american" when I'm not from that continent.
Gunner is the anglicised version of Gunnar champ.
So use Gunnar instead, champ. Using a name so linked to guns in a country with such a problem with guns is out of touch and cringe.
Also, champ, can I dislike a name or are you going to tell me what to think? Is your name gunnar and you feel offended because an internet stranger doesn't like the american version of it, champ?
The point being names are just names.
And your opinion is just yours.
Try to be nicer, and you may end up happier for it.
You're not wrong, but that's a weird hill to defend.
Did you call your kid Gunner or are you just trying to get offended on the internet?