Nagatar Karumuttu Chettiar wrote:So you know that one issue where you have a choice to ban certain names that are considered 'inappropriate'?
Well I had an idea for an issue that only people who chose to mandate a government-list of names get.
The premise would be a guy named Dick @@randomname@@ IV and how he and his wife just had a son to find that they couldn't name him Dick @@randomname@@ V because of government law. They petition the government to give them the freedom to name their children what they want.
What say you GI?
It sounds an rather like "You just made this decision; do you want to... unmake it" to me.
It also sounds rather like it would mirror the premise of #258 where Follicle Rainbow Gooseknob insists she has the freedom to name [expletive deleted] whatever she wants. And, if I'd just received an issue and made a decision, I'm not sure I'd like to receive another issue with a very similar-sounding premise (the name is tamer, but still "naughty" -- also, if Dick were to be banned, it would have a knock-on effect for "Big Love, Big Problems", as that is the name of a character).
While there could be a follow-up for state-mandated names, I'm not sure this is it.
I suggest you look at nations in the real world where they restrict baby naming to government-approved lists, and see if parents have any common complaints.
EDIT: I found
this about the hows, whys and huhs of government-restricted baby names for you. Also this, about a family in
Denmark, which has very strict naming laws (that actually suggests a good angle; a family with international heritage would like to name their child to honour that ancestry, but it's not on the list...)