The people who got mad at GRRM for fucking up names because he had no pronunciation guide said they fucked up names because they had no pronunciation guide.
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I dont think accidental mispronunciation of names is racist (except insofar as "we live in a racist society") and I was annoyed that GRRM was called that for mispronouncing names. That the exact same people who got mad at him for it did it themselves is both mild proof in his favor and schadenfreude
sep 2, 2025, 8:55 pm • 4 0 • view
My deadname was one I thought was very simple and yet I can count the number of Americans who could pronounce it on one hand. I look at the name Siobhan with fear. I met Andrzej Sapkowski and had to be corrected on his first name. People mess up names they don't know.
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FWIW I am exclusively referring to doing this accidentally, and even so a lot of the time it's the result of a society that places greater value on specific names. The way hosts on Fox News pretended Kamala Harris had an unpronounceable first name is an example of racism
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As is the way people are encouraged to have names that assimilate, which is why I said my deadname is unpronounceable but my actual name is absurdly common - I likely would have picked something different had racism *not* been a factor.
sep 2, 2025, 9:01 pm • 2 0 • view
But neither of those things are about what George RR Martin and now the two new presenters did.
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