THE IMPORTANCE OF GIVING BOYS non-masculine names. “Among my generation of parents, our nontraditional boys’ names—vaguely androgynous, nonmacho, or just plain unique—reflect our own desire to raise sons who will be as comfortable pushing dolls in strollers as pushing trucks.” Interesting theory. These people are apparently unfamiliar with A Boy Named Sue. . . .

UPDATE: Reader Barry Dworak says that Firefly has changed (some) things for him: “Somehow, Jayne will never seem like a feminine name again… I could name my son Jayne, I think. Joss, however, is still a tad weird. Go figure.” Well, you never saw Joss toting Vera. “This impressive weapon was aquired when, in Jayne’s words ‘Three men came to kill me at once, and the best of them carried this’.”