Woman Goes Online To Publicly Mock Cousin’s Baby Name, Finds Herself Evicted, Plays The Victim

Helping family members in times of need is generally a pretty nice thing to do. However, time and time again, some folks prove that not only are they perfectly willing to bite the hand that feeds them, they also just can’t keep their uninformed opinions to themselves.

A woman wondered if she and her husband were wrong to kick out their unemployed, adult cousin for making an internet post mocking their newborn’s middle name. She, mistakenly, thought it was a made-up name and not the husband’s grandfather’s real name, but this didn’t stop her from trying to spin her actions as “doing the couple a favor.”

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While there are folks out there who decide to give their kids bizarre or pop-culture-infused names, it’s important to remember that most of the names we think of as “normal” all were probably unusual at some point. It’s only through usage that they become common enough to not draw attention.

However, this is clearly not the case here, as the name is a passed-down, family name. One must assume that it’s not from the cousin’s side of the family, but that is no reason to be rude and ignorant. The many commenters on the cousin’s post no doubt fell in the same category, willing to mock, but not do their due diligence, as a simple internet search would reveal that this is, in fact, a real name.

The real issue is that, first and foremost, the cousin thought it was perfectly acceptable to make an internet post mocking the newborn of family members who were hosting her. If you are unemployed and in a new city and a family member, who isn’t in your direct family, takes you into their home after having a baby, you shouldn’t literally antagonize them. It’s not like she is doing them some service, she is practically a freeloader.

Even worse, when confronted, she invents some dumb story that, actually, she was helping them. As the woman who made the above post noted, this really doesn’t make any sense, as she never brought this idea up, nor showed them the post. Similarly, she didn’t try to “show” them that this name could be an issue, she made a post specifically mocking it.

It’s quite unclear how a middle name is going to ruin a child’s life, as most folks who don’t like their middle name simply do not use it anywhere. She then tries to bring up some ideas that the husband “can’t speak [the language] and isn’t even involved in the culture,” while at the same time literally mocking this name. These actions are not equivalent, no matter how she tries to spin it.

There is some evidence that a person’s name can affect their career prospects, but it’s not as clear-cut as some might think. Essentially, a name can be an indicator or race, gender or even age, which could matter to some employers. This is generally not legal, but this doesn’t mean that some hiring managers don’t have their own biases.

However, a middle name can often be fully excluded from a job application, if the person doesn’t like it. Similarly, as the woman notes, there are people in their hometown with this name. Perhaps at some point this child will grow up and want to move, but the cousin’s faux “concern” is just an excuse to cover up what she already knows, that her behavior is simply horrible. And, as this story shows, it’s also terribly short-sighted, since she was now evicted from a comfortable place to stay. She should have been more worried about her future instead, it seems.