Originally published at: Kevinism: discrimination against people named "Kevin" | Boing Boing
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A song about how Kevins are underrated and will fix everything once they are old enough.
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May I be the first to make the obligatory comment…
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This can’t be helped by most of the more famous celebrity Kevins.
Kevin Sorbo - creationist, egotist, and general dumbass of the highest caliber
Kevin Siembieda - the guy who owns Palladium Books, doesn’t pay his writers, and even in today’s digital age, uses scissors and paste to cut-and-paste sections from one book to another for layout
Kevin Spacey - oh, awkward.
Kevin McCarthy - currently spearheading racist politics for the Q party in the US House of Representatives
KVN - character from Final Space who exists to make people hate him. Literally.
Kevin Smith - yeah okay, he’s a pretty decent guy, but he’s got a lot of competition, and the grognards are currently really mad at him about He-Man.
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Yeah, stupid kid had the chance to take out Trump in '92 and totally blew it.
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Kevin Bacon (and Tremors - one of the top 5 all time best movies!) begs to differ.
As does Kevin Kline.
And Kevin Costner (hmm - I may be getting into disputed territory - better stop).
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This is exactly how things started in Germany!
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see also: any white boy who was named “Bruce” in the 70’s, anyone named “Melvin” in the 80’s, any Black person named ANYTHING remotely “Black”-sounding ever, anyone with a vaguely middle-eastern name, anyone with a hispanic/latino name, and, finally, and maybe least of all, the hundreds of perfectly normal, non-c*nt-like white ladies named Karen through no fault of their own.
I might not judge a ‘Kevin’, but I will have to put effort into not judging a Kaitlyn, a Hunter, a Trevor, or a Kyrsten.
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Woo! 5.5 to 2.5 - Sturgeon’s law for the win! Really though, you can probably do that with any name when picking out famous people, more of them will be in some way awful than aren’t.
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In Japan, they have this thing called “kirakira names,” where people give their kids ridiculous names that defy logic to sound nice, such as 未来来 (the first two characters mean “Future,” but doubling up the second character doesn’t add meaning), which is read as “Mirakuru” (i.e. “Miracle”), or 希星 (written with the characters for “Hope/Wish” and “Star” and torturously pronounced like “Kitty”). “Kirakira,” by the way, means “Sparkly.”
These are the children of Millennials, so they are too young to be discriminated against, but I can only imagine what the future holds in store.
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Fucking Trevor!
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Who cares. How about we start ignoring those people instead of caring if they like something or not?
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If I cared what they liked, I wouldn’t have called them grognards, but the article is about people named Kevin being discriminated against, and that is an example of such. It’s also why I stopped at that point, since like Mr. Costner, he’s an edge case.
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Kevin!
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I had a “Malcom” issue once, we had 5 “Malcom’s” working in one restaurant, it was a true disaster.
It seems near impossible, but everyone of those “Malcom’s” were like watching a one legged man in an ass kicking contest. I survived, they “Malcom’s” did not.
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Odd to see “Peggy” on that list, since it’s a nickname for Margaret, a very common German name.
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I feel like USians have almost the exact same prejudice against “Billy Bob” and similar names.
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