New Heights In Nanny-ism
Personally I think it’s a weird name for a kid, but then again I’m not the one who gets to choose it – the bigger parts of this story are (a) laws requiring city hall employees in Italy to report “odd names”, and the right of a court to force a set of parents to change their child’s name.
What’s in a name? If the name is Friday, shame and ridicule, according to Italian judges who forbade a couple from naming their child like the character in “Robinson Crusoe.”
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Since city hall officials are obliged by law to report odd names, the matter ended up before judges in Genoa, the northern Italian city where the couple live.
Last month, an appeals court stated that Friday falls into the category of the “ridiculous or shameful” names that are barred by law, as it recalled the native servant in Daniel Defoe’s novel.
Not only is the law idiotic – but what the heck is wrong with the name “Friday”? It also happened to belong to one of Robert Heinlein’s best-ever heroines.
Glad I don’t live there. Just ask my boys Bruce Wayne and Chewbacca.
Well, our two children, Cunnilingus and Fellatio, don’t seem to mind having unusual names.
And how is little Coprophilia these days, anyway?