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Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Do people still do the junior thing? I’ve never met one before.
I feel like naming people jr is like stripping them of an identity other than “you are the son of”
I’m a junior. I have no issues with my name and love my father. That said, I always felt pressure. Not really from my father, but just some pressure/expectation that I cannot explain.
We purposely did not make our sons a third as I think children need their own identity. I’m not extra woke, I just come at this from very practical perspective with experience.
Another thing. Legit why women isn’t jr? 15 generations of Rose and they all just be Rose. No Rose Jr, Rose II, RoseIII…. Hi, I’m Rose. This is my mama Rose. This is my memaw Rose…
It’s like they’re born with a shadow they never asked for.
Naming a child Jr. is cruel
It’s interesting how naming conventions can spark such deep conversations. The whole junior thing feels like a double-edged sword. On one hand, it’s a way to honor family, but on the other, it feels like a straitjacket for identity. Plus, why is it always the boys? What’s wrong with a little Rose Jr. representation?
This is how we get more Lil Wayne stories.
You have to be extremely conceited to think you have the best name and to “pass it down”
Giving the son the same name as the father makes it really easy to steal each other’s identity.
There’s a joke about Christmas in here somewhere.
I swear the junior/II thing is a holdover from the days of much shorter lifespans.
Funny tho I’m the firstborn but my parents named my little brother jr, so Ive lived my whole life getting called my brother’s name anytime I bumped into an family acquaintance, and it’s still goin on,
Junior Mints. They’re delicious!!
My mom absolutely hated that I was named after my dad, who was named after his dad. Honestly, if it wasn’t a hassle, I’d go and get myself renamed.
This reminds me I’m hungry🤣
I’m a Third “III” and my son is a Fourth “IV”.
My father would be Jr. but he never used Jr. or II.
It’s amazing how many people on reddit already had opinions on naming someone Jr and how awful it is. Amazing. Like to have an opinion on that so strongly to comment about it prior to this thread. Amazing
my dog is tilting her head at this post
I will never name my son “Jr.” That sh- too boring for me.
Honestly, if I were a Jr., I’d have changed my first name decades ago
I did legally change my surname as soon as I could so I’d just have changed both at the same time.
I’m a Junior. My father’s bad credit made it difficult at first to get my security clearance to join the AF and I had to take a long time to get it all off of me and even then some companies refused to believe that I, at 21 hadn’t somehow had 2 bankruptcies. It’s a nightmare if dad has bad credit.
I thought it was a title thing, not a name. Like if he has the same name then he’s automatically a jr or third and so on…
I knew a weed dealer in college that went by “fourth”. Honestly kinda cool.
Single mom’s naming their kid Jr, when they should be naming them Plan C.
Lado chose comedy today. And I’m here for it.
oh mah god. lmao
My buddy is a 4th
I didn’t want to saddle my son with my god awful name
as someone who is a “fake” junior (different middle name) i think men who do this are just ego monsters to think they need to create a little version of themself. my 20 year old father was just stupid as most men his age are. no idea why this woman is caught up in this tradition, but its stupid. you are not english royalty, cut that shit out.
What does food have to do with anything
Half the people in this thread never had their dad say “I’m proud of you, son” and it shows
I can’t imagine the ego you’d need to name your kid “your name” Jr