#girlswithdifficultnames

People have problems in california all the time because of this law, which makes their names illegal.

My birth name is Haille, and it’s pronounced “Hay-lee” but people keep pronouncing it like “Hallie”. some even fucking write it “Hallie” like no, I didn’t misspell my name. One of my coworkers says shit like “Kaylee” “callie” and constantly forgets my actual fucking name. It pisses me off so fucking much. 

Has it really come to this? “If you don’t say my name right you are oppressing me.”? Fucking really? I’ve got a name, It’s from Assassin’s Creed 3. Connor’s real name. I’m using this name to make it easy for people to look it up. Guess what. There are many ways of pronouncing it. OMG THE HUMANITY!

Of course, there is human error, but if you make no effort to say a person’s name correctly you are dehumanizing them, disrespecting them and generally being an asshole.

hey asshole, it’s not that you’re oppressing someone because you made a mistake. you’re being oppressive by refusing to learn to say their name correctly and forcing them to use something more Anglo that you’ve been trained to see as a valid/“normal” name.