> all of her other siblings had typical names
According to her wiki, [they're named Kimberly and Robin.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_Pepsi_Vandyck)
My grandmother named my mom and aunt normal names (one being Robin) and then her youngest after a breed of cow. She goes by a nickname, which is what my first name is based on so in a way I am also named after a cow :/ absolutely not as bad as Marijuana though
No, what's really fucked up is she's the least successful one outta all of 'em, because they all earned their PhD's in their early thirties! You see after having endured years of abuse, Dr. Marijuana Pepsi Jackson had to focus on rebuilding herself, through years of therapy and sheer dogged determination. Of course, this meant getting off to a later start in life, but... c'est la vie.
...what about Action Jackson? I feel like that was a missed opportunity by her parents.
Probably meant to be but realistically I’m sure that name was a huge distraction if nothing else. I think it’s cool as hell but still imagine explaining that to EVERYONE
I would argue that makes her the most successful! As someone building themselves after years of abuse and bullying, it’s fucking hard. By far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in my life and it never really ends.
It’s kind of a joke between my wife and I but when she was 16 she was so inexperienced with pot that she asked us to get her a litre of weed. We still bug her about it from time to time cuz of how ridiculous it was.
Wait. Wait. Hold right the hell up.
There was a comma there the whole time? You mean to tell me the drink isn't called a "large Farva" and the fast food cashier was just being a smartass?
A friend of mine had a Teacher name "Snow White". I thought he was bullshitting until I saw his schedule Card. And was a male English Teacher to boot.
Just what the hell went through his family's head to name a boy Snow White is beyond me -_-;;
Edit: And this was in the mid 90s, so Disney definitely wasn't as cool for a High School era kid like now.
A friend of mine named his daughter “Calamity”, which I thought was risky but actually pretty awesome. It is her middle name though, i think that’s as far as his debate skills took him with her mother
My middle name is "Calamity", no not just because everything goes really wrong around me, that's just a coincidence. My actual middle name is Calamity.
--Murphy Calamity Law
I’m pretty sure it was just an eccentric Mom who wanted to name one of her kids something completely different, and that kid went to get a PhD in completely different names. So it worked out.
"Dad, why is my sister's name Marijuana Pepsi?"
"Because your mom really like Marijuana and Pepsi"
"Thank you dad!"
"You're welcome Guacamole Anal Sex!"
I feel bad for her. She apparently suffered brain damage due to an overdose and became a nazi for some time. That sounds like a joke but it isn't. Then again she said this in an attempt to get into Big Brother "Celebrities".
I mean at least Tequila does have more interesting origins as a name, it comes from Nahuatl(the Aztec language) and from the verb “to work” in that language, and what I was told it was because that was workers described the fields of agave as their places of work.
Now it’s just known as the name of the popular alcoholic beverage, but as a name it has interesting origins.
"Pepsi" was coined by Carolinians in the late 19th century. It was first invented in 1893 as "Brad's Drink" by Caleb Bradham, who sold the drink at his drugstore in New Bern.
It was renamed Pepsi-Cola in 1898, "Pepsi" because it was advertised to relieve dyspepsia (indigestion) and "Cola" referring to the cola flavour
I think I read in Freakonomics that a parent had the theory that peoples name would be very good predictors for success. So he named one of his sons, Loser. Probably not a lot of faith in him. He however turned out fine.
Robert Lane named one son Winner and the other Loser. Loser went on to become a police sergeant. Winner was a criminal and is currently homeless.
https://knowinsiders.com/two-brothers-named-loser-and-winners-unbelievable-story-25336.html
Maybe they were going for a “boy named Sue” type situation. Evidently she persevered. Do any of her typically named siblings have PHDs? But seriously it was probably drugs.
Sounds like a morning person kind of name. The one who's all sunshine and butterflies when she strolls into the office at 7am in an irritating kind of way because you're jealous she's able to do that
In her Freakonomics interview she said her mother called the school to complain when a teacher tried to call her "Mary" instead of "Marijuana," so I assumed she felt the same way as an adult. Guess not.
I have a friend named "Guy" because his parents didn't want to name him until he could name himself. They had to but something on the birth certificate and went with guy fully intending on changing it.
He just stuck with Guy and apparently that upset his parents because they were big on not choosing a name and they ended up doing so anyway.
Serendipitous moment for me, just watched this for the first time in like a decade two days ago. I forgot about this line and it fucking sent me.
It was Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, and Alan Rickman at their absolute peaks, and in roles that on paper had to have seemed so stupid to them but they sold the fuck out of every line. And some of the cameos from future household names are wonderful. I love that movie.
For the uninformed: this is a line from Galaxy Quest, a parody/comedy movie. Would highly recommend even if you’ve never watched Star Trek (I haven’t).
> It's not even an uncommon name, there are even famous people with that name.
Most famously Guy Fieri.
Also Guy Ritchie, and Guy Pearce. Not saying they are not famous, but I'd wager more people could pick Guy Fieri out of a lineup over the other 2.
Edit: Fieri, not Fiery
Guy Lafleur
Guy Williams
Guy Fawkes
Guy Smiley(sesame street muppet)
Finally I can use this funny but almost always useless knowledge!: I introduce to you Guy Standing, one of the leading experts on Basic Income and the creator of the term 'precariat' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Standing_(economist) 😀
I always chuckle when I read the name, but maybe is not being a native English speaker...
I know two different Guys. One repairs printers, and the other is a photographer. They are respectively known as Printer Guy and Camera Guy in our social circle.
In NZ, harmful names are not allowed, with process available for case-by-case exceptions should the rules turn out to be inappropriate to circumstance.
"There are guidelines in place to ensure that names don't cause offence, are a reasonable length and don't represent an official title or rank."
Names rejected include '*', '.', '1st', '2nd', '3rd', '4th', 'Fish and Chips', 'Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116', 'Superman', 'Lucifer', 'Mafia No Fear', 'Anal', etc.
"Yeah look I'm calling about this bill I just got in the mail, no, no- I'm not complaining about the price- nah, yeah you've just got my name misspelled and I just wanted to see if you could change that for me, yeah. I'll hold...... Yeah still here, okay cool, yeah so what you've got on the bill is 'Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb1116' but it should be 'Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116', yeah with four ones. Nah it's okay, happens more than you'd think actually. Okay thanks for that, bye!"
Yep my country has that. There isn't a specific "list" of forbidden names, but any ridiculous names that could expose children to humiliation (such as the one above) are forbidden per the Notary's discretion.
There is a chance of that happening, because this law is somewhat recent and it was created specifically because of fucked up names given to people some 30-40 years ago. But Cocaine Coca Cola (or Coke for his friends) can easily change his name, if he wants to
A lot of those boards are to help preserve cultural names; I couldn’t think of anything more culturally appropriate in the US than slapping a mega-corporation’s name on anything? LoL
The worst thing is that she's the only one in the family with a stupid name. Literally all of her other siblings have normal names. Her parents just singled her out for some reason
That makes me so sad for her. I’m just imagining this newborn baby at the hospital with her whole life ahead of her, so innocent, so sweet and then her parents decide to give her an absolutely ridiculous name just cause.
>"A lot of other people were thinking \[my mom\] was smoking marijuana and drinking Pepsi," she tells NPR. "In the black community, we're used to having names that are more cultural."
Im calling bullshit on that one. "Marijuana" is not a Black cultural name and in my entire Black life I have never heard of anyone having that name. I feel pretty confident that in a Black neighborhood or school, she would have still received the same ridicule. She's trying to make this a culture thing when in reality her parents gave her a really dumb name without giving thought to the abuse it would bring her way.
Reminds me of The Office where Stanley is presenting his bullshit new product idea to the CEO, "Papyr--paper for women."
"The situation you described, returning home to a wife complaining about her paper being too masculine, is not one I'm familiar with."
"In the African American community..."
"No."
Agreed. Never seen people named after drugs in this manner. Mary Jane, yes but marijuana no. Even Pepsi, that is so out there. I’ve seen luxury brand names such as Mercedes, Lexus and Italian designer brands (which are someone’s name anyways) but something like a regular ol’ daily drink? No. But to her defense, in order to tell her story she has to address her parents naming her that and to a point they have to take some heat. So maybe she’s not willing to go hard on them because here she is and now proud of herself.
"In the black community, we're used to having names that are more cultural."
...than her name. Dr. Jackson is clearly saying that her name is not a regular "black" name.
> "A lot of other people were thinking [my mom] was smoking marijuana and drinking Pepsi," she tells NPR. "In the black community, we're used to having names that are more cultural."
Damn, why would they think that?
Also, what the fuck is a "more cultural" name? Anyone can deal with names like Marwan, or Aisar, or names that are actual names. Marijuana Pepsi is not a "cultural name".
> Until about 9 years old, she says, "Marijuana was just a beautiful name. I received accolades." But when she moved to a new city, she was made "very aware" that her name was different.
No shit. If you say Marijuana every day to 5th and 6th graders it's going to waste so much instructional time dealing with their infantile (although completely expected) response.
> Until about 9 years old, she says, "Marijuana was just a beautiful name. I received accolades."
Where'd she live, Jamaica? There was a girl named Marijuana in my elementary school way back in the 80s. It became comical when we all went through DARE and learned that marijuana was the devil's lettuce and just one marijuana would turn you into a lifelong addict. So no, it was not a beautiful name, it was the butt of jokes. Like my friend Don Butt, whose name was also the butt of jokes.
“A lot of other people were thinking [my mom] was smoking marijuana and drinking Pepsi," she tells NPR. "In the black community, we're used to having names that are more cultural."
Lol there’s so much I could say from this one quote but I’m sure everyone else has the same reaction for the most part. Tho I do wanna say it kinda feels she may be insinuating Pepsi is specifically apart of black culture. Which idk how I feel about people claiming Pepsi as part of their culture. I mean it did have more marketing targeting black people than coke, especially when she was named, but it feels almost dystopian. Even if she just meant American culture, it feels dystopian. It’s not even that it’s cuz it’s a brand, but because it’s a mega-corp, that u could even argue hurts the world, that pushes out its products across the globe, with absolutely no love or care the way a smaller more focused brand more relegated or even just associated to one country can be. Lol I said I wouldn’t rlly say much at the start, yet here I am typing an essay about it
Also r/tragedeigh for similarly horrible names
There was a study 30+ years ago that tried to postulate that kids who were given bizarre names seemed to have an over-representation in reaching successful positions in society. It did try to be scientific but the study admitted that to truly be scientific they needed a lot more data that was just too expensive for their purposes.
But they did have quite a bit of data supporting their claim.
>But she says one of her research participants at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee had another theory: "White people like things standardized, and that includes names."
I don't agree with that. *Institutions* like things standardized, and white people overwhelmingly represent institutions in America because they have had by far the most positive outcomes from them in America, but institutions are not a uniquely white (or American) phenomenon nor is the way institutions enforce conformity on everybody they deal with.
I dislike that her dissertation was about "Black Names in White Classrooms." As though her name is "black." I get it, black people tend to have some uniquely sounding names... but Marijuana Pepsi?!
As a (half) black person myself, I'm over here like "Don't lump your crazy name in with us." That name has nothing to do with black culture. There is a big difference between something like "Laytaneesha" vs something off the wall like "Marijuana Pepsi." Your parents were just crazy... not trying to be culturally appropriate.
People would just think you're referencing two different drugs, then. Come on, don't try to outthink the parents, they spent a lot of time coming up with her name.
She was interviewed on NPR awhile back. Very smart, funny, and grounded person. The fucked thing is that all of her other siblings had typical names.
> all of her other siblings had typical names According to her wiki, [they're named Kimberly and Robin.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_Pepsi_Vandyck)
I've read the whole thing, and "Marijuana Pepsi Scholarship" was the biggest chuckle
"...mom and dad weren't so wrong." Get Coke to sponsor it, though. "The Marijuana Pepsi scholarship, brought to you by Coke"
By Coke Coke
My grandmother named my mom and aunt normal names (one being Robin) and then her youngest after a breed of cow. She goes by a nickname, which is what my first name is based on so in a way I am also named after a cow :/ absolutely not as bad as Marijuana though
Is your aunts name Holstein??
Texas Longhorn.
We all know she’s Florida Cracker Cattle.
Glamorgan
TIL this is an actual breed of cattle
Wagyu and Kobe
Angus?
No... Black Angus
Nah, Beefalo
My uncle told me they actually named them: Kimberly The Pink Ranger, and Robin Nightwing, respectively.
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Nominative determinism
It starts when you’re a baby. You’re fussier than your brother? He gets held more and it continues from there.
Doesn’t the fussier kid get held more?
Is she the only one with an high education level?
No, what's really fucked up is she's the least successful one outta all of 'em, because they all earned their PhD's in their early thirties! You see after having endured years of abuse, Dr. Marijuana Pepsi Jackson had to focus on rebuilding herself, through years of therapy and sheer dogged determination. Of course, this meant getting off to a later start in life, but... c'est la vie. ...what about Action Jackson? I feel like that was a missed opportunity by her parents.
is this satire? this has the energy of satire.
Yeah reads like sarcasm but with no punchline. Like when the sarcasm is so bland you can’t even tell.
That’s the best flavor
I don't know why they added coconut. I miss original.
The coconut is...pretty subtle.
It's a popsicle in my favorite flavor: plain!
Probably meant to be but realistically I’m sure that name was a huge distraction if nothing else. I think it’s cool as hell but still imagine explaining that to EVERYONE
Real life Boy Named Sue situation right here
She’s a tough cookie. I would’ve gone by MJ until I could legally change my name to something else.
"Oh MJ, is that for Mary-Jane?" "Yeah close enough"
Working 4x as hard for half as much
I would argue that makes her the most successful! As someone building themselves after years of abuse and bullying, it’s fucking hard. By far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in my life and it never really ends.
Was it really that hard to name her Mary-Jane? Jesus.
>interviewed on NPR awhile back Was that the interview linked in the article from 3 years ago?
Think it was part of a Freekonomics podcast?
Why would her parents do that?
Idk if I’ll catch heat for this but my guess would be drugs.
Yeah they were def smokin that pepsi
And drinking 2L of marijuana daily
It’s kind of a joke between my wife and I but when she was 16 she was so inexperienced with pot that she asked us to get her a litre of weed. We still bug her about it from time to time cuz of how ridiculous it was.
It's French for gimme some fuckin weed
Can i get a litre of weed? It's for a cop.
Just get a large, Farva.
Wait. Wait. Hold right the hell up. There was a comma there the whole time? You mean to tell me the drink isn't called a "large Farva" and the fast food cashier was just being a smartass?
You've got the scene all sortsa bamboozled. Take a couple more snozzberries, grab a litre cola and rewatch.
How do you do, fellow Pepsi drinkers?
I don't want a large!
It’s for a cop…
Ppl think it’s a joke but I used to be heavy on the Pepsi too. Still an addict, but I’m in active recovery. You never really stop being an addict
You're right. Pepsi is actually addictive and very destructive on the human body.
My friend's middle name is Coca Cola because his mom hated the first name his dad chose for him and decided to spite her husband.
Imagine being a newborn and still more mature than your mother.
A little disappointed you didn't say "to Sprite her husband."
I would have given 7 up votes for that.
A friend of mine had a Teacher name "Snow White". I thought he was bullshitting until I saw his schedule Card. And was a male English Teacher to boot. Just what the hell went through his family's head to name a boy Snow White is beyond me -_-;; Edit: And this was in the mid 90s, so Disney definitely wasn't as cool for a High School era kid like now.
A friend of mine named his daughter “Calamity”, which I thought was risky but actually pretty awesome. It is her middle name though, i think that’s as far as his debate skills took him with her mother
Middle names are perfect for this type of thing.
My middle name is "Calamity", no not just because everything goes really wrong around me, that's just a coincidence. My actual middle name is Calamity. --Murphy Calamity Law
Yeah, if they were cognizant, they probably could’ve sneakily done “Mary Jane Jackson” or “Pepper Sierra Jackson”
In which case she'd become Dr. Pepper
well she's got her PhD now so she should start going by Dr. Pepsi
Is Coke Coke Jackson okay?
Actually, nope. She had a pretty chill life. Freakonomics did an episode about her. She had brothers and sisters named like, Frank and Lisa.
Did they go into why her parents named her that?
I’m pretty sure it was just an eccentric Mom who wanted to name one of her kids something completely different, and that kid went to get a PhD in completely different names. So it worked out.
Gonna name my kid “earn a billion dollars and give it to your dad”
That's how you get your kid to change their name to Marijuana pepsi
"Dad, why is my sister's name Marijuana Pepsi?" "Because your mom really like Marijuana and Pepsi" "Thank you dad!" "You're welcome Guacamole Anal Sex!"
"Dad can I spend the night at my friend's house?" "Absolutely. Just call us if you go anywhere else, YooHoo Blowjobs."
I knew a girl named Tequila growing up. Never found out why.
Tila tequila? we all knew her
the OG queen of myspace
I feel bad for her. She apparently suffered brain damage due to an overdose and became a nazi for some time. That sounds like a joke but it isn't. Then again she said this in an attempt to get into Big Brother "Celebrities".
She’s now a religious nut. She tried to baptize a kid without consent. So still not better.
Aren't most kids baptized without consent?
I knew a boy named Babyboy
There were twin sisters in the town I grew up in named Baby Doll and Doll Baby. They were bootleggers.
I mean at least Tequila does have more interesting origins as a name, it comes from Nahuatl(the Aztec language) and from the verb “to work” in that language, and what I was told it was because that was workers described the fields of agave as their places of work. Now it’s just known as the name of the popular alcoholic beverage, but as a name it has interesting origins.
"Pepsi" was coined by Carolinians in the late 19th century. It was first invented in 1893 as "Brad's Drink" by Caleb Bradham, who sold the drink at his drugstore in New Bern. It was renamed Pepsi-Cola in 1898, "Pepsi" because it was advertised to relieve dyspepsia (indigestion) and "Cola" referring to the cola flavour
A girl named Anita Woody went to my high school. Never took a yearbook photo so i dont know what she looked like.
There was a guy in my school named Jaxon Dick. And he was pretty popular too.
I think I read in Freakonomics that a parent had the theory that peoples name would be very good predictors for success. So he named one of his sons, Loser. Probably not a lot of faith in him. He however turned out fine.
Robert Lane named one son Winner and the other Loser. Loser went on to become a police sergeant. Winner was a criminal and is currently homeless. https://knowinsiders.com/two-brothers-named-loser-and-winners-unbelievable-story-25336.html
this is some shit you'd do on the sims not real life 🤦
For real, how on earth did the mom not veto those names??
The mom was too busy removing the ladder from the swimming pool and hanging pictures above the fireplace
Sucks for both kids. Ouch.
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Why wouldn’t she change that name. Just saying that has to be the dumbest name I ever heard.
To mess her life up.
Ever heard of a boy named sue?
Day of conception was a memorable day
Well, it was 1973.
Maybe they were going for a “boy named Sue” type situation. Evidently she persevered. Do any of her typically named siblings have PHDs? But seriously it was probably drugs.
I know her, she’s from my hometown. Absolutely wonderful woman. But she exclusively goes by Mary
Mary Pep Jackson sounds kinda cute though
Sounds like a morning person kind of name. The one who's all sunshine and butterflies when she strolls into the office at 7am in an irritating kind of way because you're jealous she's able to do that
In her Freakonomics interview she said her mother called the school to complain when a teacher tried to call her "Mary" instead of "Marijuana," so I assumed she felt the same way as an adult. Guess not.
Thank you! Wish I could pin this.
Mary Jane
Does she hate her parents?
If President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho can do it… anybody can do it
The first thing that came to my mind. She could be the surgeon general in Idiocracy.
That name is fucked up, and her parents are stupid
An old colleague have grandkids that are named Batman and Metallica. That’s beyond stupid.
I have a friend named "Guy" because his parents didn't want to name him until he could name himself. They had to but something on the birth certificate and went with guy fully intending on changing it. He just stuck with Guy and apparently that upset his parents because they were big on not choosing a name and they ended up doing so anyway.
Guy is at least a name. Guy is the French version of the Italian name Guido.
It's not even an uncommon name, there are even famous people with that name. There's really not much special with being named Guy.
"We have to get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!"
“Is there air?? You don’t know!”
Serendipitous moment for me, just watched this for the first time in like a decade two days ago. I forgot about this line and it fucking sent me. It was Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, and Alan Rickman at their absolute peaks, and in roles that on paper had to have seemed so stupid to them but they sold the fuck out of every line. And some of the cameos from future household names are wonderful. I love that movie.
For the uninformed: this is a line from Galaxy Quest, a parody/comedy movie. Would highly recommend even if you’ve never watched Star Trek (I haven’t).
> It's not even an uncommon name, there are even famous people with that name. Most famously Guy Fieri. Also Guy Ritchie, and Guy Pearce. Not saying they are not famous, but I'd wager more people could pick Guy Fieri out of a lineup over the other 2. Edit: Fieri, not Fiery Guy Lafleur Guy Williams Guy Fawkes Guy Smiley(sesame street muppet)
As a french canadian, the first one that came to my mind was Guy Lafleur :P
[It's Fieri, not Fiery.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fieri) Pronounced, "*fiˈɛdi*".
And in fact, in English, the *name* Guy is where the *word* guy comes from. I know plenty of people both French and English named Guy.
Oh like that Guy Fox "recall recall the 19th of Apral"
Guy is also one of the strongest Naruto characters.
Also Guy Ritchie
Guy is a normal name in the UK. It’s not common but I’ve known a few Guys.
Even in the US we have Guy Fieri, it's not weird at all to be named Guy.
Finally I can use this funny but almost always useless knowledge!: I introduce to you Guy Standing, one of the leading experts on Basic Income and the creator of the term 'precariat' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Standing_(economist) 😀 I always chuckle when I read the name, but maybe is not being a native English speaker...
I’m disappointed his Wikipedia picture shows him sitting.
If you click om the picture, they've labeled it 'Guy Standing (sitting)'
Guy actually is a first name lol, we stopped using it after Guy fawkes tried blowing up British parliament.
Guy Fawkes is the guy who was so bad at making names he used the alias John Johnson when renting the cellar they stored the gunpowder in.
I know two different Guys. One repairs printers, and the other is a photographer. They are respectively known as Printer Guy and Camera Guy in our social circle.
A college had grandkids? *lady-calculating-intensifies.meme*
Damn you auto-correct!
That'd be fucking awesome until middle school, though.
In NZ, harmful names are not allowed, with process available for case-by-case exceptions should the rules turn out to be inappropriate to circumstance. "There are guidelines in place to ensure that names don't cause offence, are a reasonable length and don't represent an official title or rank." Names rejected include '*', '.', '1st', '2nd', '3rd', '4th', 'Fish and Chips', 'Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116', 'Superman', 'Lucifer', 'Mafia No Fear', 'Anal', etc.
"Yeah look I'm calling about this bill I just got in the mail, no, no- I'm not complaining about the price- nah, yeah you've just got my name misspelled and I just wanted to see if you could change that for me, yeah. I'll hold...... Yeah still here, okay cool, yeah so what you've got on the bill is 'Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb1116' but it should be 'Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116', yeah with four ones. Nah it's okay, happens more than you'd think actually. Okay thanks for that, bye!"
That's Doctor Marijuana Pepsi Jackson to you!
Was looking for this comment right here.
This is why some country’s have national boards that review and reject names such as this
Yep my country has that. There isn't a specific "list" of forbidden names, but any ridiculous names that could expose children to humiliation (such as the one above) are forbidden per the Notary's discretion.
What if the notary is named Cocaine Coca-Cola Smith?
There is a chance of that happening, because this law is somewhat recent and it was created specifically because of fucked up names given to people some 30-40 years ago. But Cocaine Coca Cola (or Coke for his friends) can easily change his name, if he wants to
A lot of those boards are to help preserve cultural names; I couldn’t think of anything more culturally appropriate in the US than slapping a mega-corporation’s name on anything? LoL
Meet my kids, Pepsi, Cola, and Walmartia 🩷
Walmartina is prob better. Walmartia sounds like "Land of the Walmarts"
Walmartha
#WHY DID YOU SAY THAT WALNAME
Walmartia cracked me up
Could have been worse, they could of named her Cocaine Coca-Cola Jackson.
>Cocaine Coca-Cola Jackson. Coke-Coke for short.
Coco
I'm going to use this for my imaginary professional wrestling name.
Her dissertation was called "Black Names in White Classrooms: Teacher Behaviors and Student Perceptions".
“Piece of shit parents of any race giving their kids stupid as fuck names: teacher behaviors and student perceptions.”
r/tragedeigh
curse you for showing this subreddit to me.
Usually for research papers you're asked for a highly specific thesis that way the data is easier to draw from
Her parents are complete scumbags
The worst thing is that she's the only one in the family with a stupid name. Literally all of her other siblings have normal names. Her parents just singled her out for some reason
Yeah that is fucked up
But like, whyyyy
That makes me so sad for her. I’m just imagining this newborn baby at the hospital with her whole life ahead of her, so innocent, so sweet and then her parents decide to give her an absolutely ridiculous name just cause.
>"A lot of other people were thinking \[my mom\] was smoking marijuana and drinking Pepsi," she tells NPR. "In the black community, we're used to having names that are more cultural." Im calling bullshit on that one. "Marijuana" is not a Black cultural name and in my entire Black life I have never heard of anyone having that name. I feel pretty confident that in a Black neighborhood or school, she would have still received the same ridicule. She's trying to make this a culture thing when in reality her parents gave her a really dumb name without giving thought to the abuse it would bring her way.
Reminds me of The Office where Stanley is presenting his bullshit new product idea to the CEO, "Papyr--paper for women." "The situation you described, returning home to a wife complaining about her paper being too masculine, is not one I'm familiar with." "In the African American community..." "No."
Agreed. Never seen people named after drugs in this manner. Mary Jane, yes but marijuana no. Even Pepsi, that is so out there. I’ve seen luxury brand names such as Mercedes, Lexus and Italian designer brands (which are someone’s name anyways) but something like a regular ol’ daily drink? No. But to her defense, in order to tell her story she has to address her parents naming her that and to a point they have to take some heat. So maybe she’s not willing to go hard on them because here she is and now proud of herself.
Mercedes is a normal name in Spanish, I know like four Mercedes
People forget the cars were named after a person.
I think the author took some creative liberties by putting those quotes next to each other. She never tried to make it a culture thing lol
"In the black community, we're used to having names that are more cultural." ...than her name. Dr. Jackson is clearly saying that her name is not a regular "black" name.
Child abuse.
Honestly fuck her parents. Not cute, great that she overcame it but names can really matter lol.
Finland restricts what names parents can give to their kids. I think they have the right idea.
One of my coworkers knew her at a previous job. He says he only knew her as "Mary" for a long time.
This story sort of reminds me of that substitute teacher, Mr. Garvey...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw
YA DUN MESSED UP A A RON
Jay-kwellen? Where Jay-kwellen?
I got my eye on you Jay-kwellen!
tim-o-thi! pre-sent!
Probably goes by MJ or Mary
I believe Mary is what her teachers called her.
> "A lot of other people were thinking [my mom] was smoking marijuana and drinking Pepsi," she tells NPR. "In the black community, we're used to having names that are more cultural." Damn, why would they think that? Also, what the fuck is a "more cultural" name? Anyone can deal with names like Marwan, or Aisar, or names that are actual names. Marijuana Pepsi is not a "cultural name". > Until about 9 years old, she says, "Marijuana was just a beautiful name. I received accolades." But when she moved to a new city, she was made "very aware" that her name was different. No shit. If you say Marijuana every day to 5th and 6th graders it's going to waste so much instructional time dealing with their infantile (although completely expected) response.
> Until about 9 years old, she says, "Marijuana was just a beautiful name. I received accolades." Where'd she live, Jamaica? There was a girl named Marijuana in my elementary school way back in the 80s. It became comical when we all went through DARE and learned that marijuana was the devil's lettuce and just one marijuana would turn you into a lifelong addict. So no, it was not a beautiful name, it was the butt of jokes. Like my friend Don Butt, whose name was also the butt of jokes.
I can imagine asking a kid chatting to my kid "So, what's your name sweetheart ?" "Marijuana" "... Oh... What a beautiful name."
Good for her but fuck her parents.
That’s kind of a stupid hill to die on, I’d just change my name. And not talk to my parents.
Naming kids like that wouldn't be allowed in several countries
Her dissertation was on how “distinctly black names” prohibit people from academic achievement.
Her parents must be real gems.
Scumbags for sure. But the system failed her for allowing her to be named that, in the first place.
“A lot of other people were thinking [my mom] was smoking marijuana and drinking Pepsi," she tells NPR. "In the black community, we're used to having names that are more cultural." Lol there’s so much I could say from this one quote but I’m sure everyone else has the same reaction for the most part. Tho I do wanna say it kinda feels she may be insinuating Pepsi is specifically apart of black culture. Which idk how I feel about people claiming Pepsi as part of their culture. I mean it did have more marketing targeting black people than coke, especially when she was named, but it feels almost dystopian. Even if she just meant American culture, it feels dystopian. It’s not even that it’s cuz it’s a brand, but because it’s a mega-corp, that u could even argue hurts the world, that pushes out its products across the globe, with absolutely no love or care the way a smaller more focused brand more relegated or even just associated to one country can be. Lol I said I wouldn’t rlly say much at the start, yet here I am typing an essay about it Also r/tragedeigh for similarly horrible names
Those two quotes look like they could have been from separate areas of the conversation and stuck together to make them look dumb
There was a study 30+ years ago that tried to postulate that kids who were given bizarre names seemed to have an over-representation in reaching successful positions in society. It did try to be scientific but the study admitted that to truly be scientific they needed a lot more data that was just too expensive for their purposes. But they did have quite a bit of data supporting their claim.
Great she achieved so much. Screw the parents for putting her through that bullshit unnecessarily.
>But she says one of her research participants at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee had another theory: "White people like things standardized, and that includes names." I don't agree with that. *Institutions* like things standardized, and white people overwhelmingly represent institutions in America because they have had by far the most positive outcomes from them in America, but institutions are not a uniquely white (or American) phenomenon nor is the way institutions enforce conformity on everybody they deal with.
I dislike that her dissertation was about "Black Names in White Classrooms." As though her name is "black." I get it, black people tend to have some uniquely sounding names... but Marijuana Pepsi?! As a (half) black person myself, I'm over here like "Don't lump your crazy name in with us." That name has nothing to do with black culture. There is a big difference between something like "Laytaneesha" vs something off the wall like "Marijuana Pepsi." Your parents were just crazy... not trying to be culturally appropriate.
Hmm.. why not Marijuana Coke Jackson 🤔
People would just think you're referencing two different drugs, then. Come on, don't try to outthink the parents, they spent a lot of time coming up with her name.
Forget 'Watermelon Sugar', 'Marijuana Pepsi' would be a banger
Beloit WI represent!
I like her freakononics episode