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What's in a name?

Yet more PC bollocks to report. When you have a kid - or even a dog - and you call it Benny or Tommy or Maddy you've got a clear idea if it's a boy doggy or a girl doggy haven't you? So what the fuck is wrong with that - ah well it reinforces gender stereotypes and we can't have that can we? Why can't we have gender neutral doggies too? My uncle says he's just been reading up about a PC couple from the South West who have named their kid Anoush. SPOILER ALERT - Anoush is a boy! Jake England-Johns and Hobbit Humphrey appeared on BBC One to discuss their decision to keep their baby’s gender a secret, to allow their child to “be themselves” and keep them free from “the gender bias that society places on children”. The couple have chosen a gender-neutral name - Anoush FFS - and the kid's never called he or she just “they”. Even the child’s grandmother didn’t know the sex of the baby until they were 11 months old (although if granny had offered to ...