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Pls help me remember this french film about a poor girl...

n9 — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:44:39 -0800

I rented this film on VHS in 1999. It is about a younger french girl, living with her mother in a trailer park. Mother is a drunk, they are poor, she tries to get a job at a food stand at one point (??) There is love interest and conflict and some kind of crisis. I loved this movie and have thought about it often since I saw it but I am afraid that my memories may have started overwriting my recollections. She is a little bit of a feral child, medium length brown hair, very striking. Please help!

Reccomend a novel for my beloved girlfriend.

Erred — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:26:18 -0800

My girlfriend told me that recently she has become sad and preoccupied with death. She often finds her mind drifting and starts to ruminate about her life stresses and sometimes death. Please reccomend novels to spark a love of reading and hopefully give her a distraction for when these bouts of worry surface. Preferably novels that are fun, with plots to get lost in or carried away with, and not too heavy or serious. I love my girlfriend dearly and, apart from all my other advice, suggested she tried reading fiction whenever she gets sad and starts worrying about death and her day to day life problems. She doesn't read at all and told me she stopped reading when she was young after she read a number of books in succession reccomended to her by a friend all dealing with really depressing topics. I'd like some reccomendations for a 19yr girl new to reading that are a distraction from death. Anything fun, exciting, funny, exhilarating or (possibly) thought-provoking, great plots and characters that make you want to keep reading but nothing too literary, complicated or heavy or depressing. These novels should be rewarding without a lot of work and enjoyable throughout. I want to get her to fall in love with reading as well as just solve this, hopefully temporary, problem. If it helps she's a very sweet girl, not at all intellectual, and she is emotional and enjoys being sentimental from time to time (but maybe that could be a trap, as I would prefer these reccomendations to lighten the spirit and captivate and charm).
Thanks so much

Novel about childhood in the American South

lunasol — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:19:55 -0800

What was this young adult (or children's) novel I read about a girl growing up in Appalachia or the Ozarks? It might have actually been two different novels. I would have read this book (or books) in the mid-80s to early-90s. I'm pretty sure it was all one book but it's possible it was two I'm conflating in my mind. What I remember:

- The main character was a young girl (maybe around 10-12), dirt poor, living in a small house in the Appalachians or the Ozarks.
- She's the only girl in her family (I think) and resents how much of the housework she has to help her mother with.
- There's one memorable scene where she's spent all day working hard and gets angry that her brothers get the first choice of meat at dinner, since she's the one who cooked it. She has an outburst and gets in trouble.
- Possibly as a result of this outburst, her parents decide she needs a break and send her to stay with city cousins, maybe in New Orleans or Atlanta. They are very glamorous to her. Her female cousin (aunt?) has never been awake early enough to see a sunrise, but has been told it looks like a fried egg.
- On her way to the big city, she shares a train with a group of soldiers headed off to war (WW2?)
- She and her classmates have to help with a cotton harvest (maybe because of the war) and get in trouble for jumping all over it (this is what makes me think I'm thinking of two different books, since AFAIK, there's never been a lot of cotton growing in the Ozarks or Appalachians).

I've tried just about every google search with these concepts and so far, nothing. Does anyone else remember reading this book or books?

Will pomegranate seeds hurt my young daughter?

lynnie-the-pooh — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:48:03 -0800

Are pomegranate seeds safe for my 8 year old daughter to eat? I heard that pomegranate seeds were really healthy and I bought them for me, but my 8 year old daughter loves them. She eats spoonfuls of them. But now I'm reading that they have something in them like estrogen? I don't want to hurt her with high estrogen. Do any of you have a better understanding about this than me.

I just don't want to be giving her something that could harm her.

Thanks.

The Scent of a Girl

user c — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:13:07 -0800

Why did girls used to smell like girls? When I was a boy, I would notice that sometimes certain girls smelled like, well, girls. There was a very specific scent, sweet and earthy and clean and animal, that my young brain identified as being uniquely female. I could notice it just standing next to a girl, no intimacy required.

I can't remember when I started noticing it. Certainly by junior high school, maybe even earlier. I seem to remember the occurrences fading as my coterie emerged from puberty, and by college I think I smelled it very rarely, if ever.

Once every few years I get a whiff of something similar that brings up a sense-memory, and I end up wondering what it was I was smelling, and why I stopped smelling it. Was it pheromones, or was there some perfume popular with girls in the early '80s, or was it something else? Has the scent gone away, or have I just lost the ability to perceive it? And, perhaps most importantly, did anyone else have this experience?

A few additional observations: I wondered if it might have something to do with menses, but I'm not sure the girls in question were always old enough to menstruate, and besides it didn't have any metallic aspect to the scent. And I've been around menstruating women as an adult and not picked up the scent.

I don't smell it on adult women. I haven't picked it up from a young girl since I became an adult, but I spend vanishingly little time around young girls.

It's one of the weirdest memories of a weird childhood, and I'm hoping someone out there can provide an explanation.

Girl names with a B

House of Leaves of Grass — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 08:20:53 -0800

Help me come up with a girl baby name within some very special constraints! We're expecting! As we're counting down the first trimester and waiting to tell people, we're discussing names. Our boy name is set in stone--both of our traditional family names. But we're struggling a bit with a first name for a girl, since we don't have any great girl names in our families.

Here's our criteria:

Must go with the middle name Leigh.
Must begin with the letter B.
Repurposed boy's names are fair game for consideration.
Our last name begins with an O and has two syllables.
Bonus points for literary connotations.

For example, our current front-runner name is Bridget; we'd call her Bree for short.

Awkward RPG Sessions - Should This Girl Gamer Find Another Group?

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:11:10 -0800

I joined a gaming group about 6 months ago - and, well, things are awkward. I am wondering if I should keep going or if I should just chalk this up to experience (no pun intended)? I have been tabletop RPGing since the mid-1990s but had to give up regular sessions when I moved to a new city a couple of years ago. It took me a long time to find a replacement group thanks to my erratic work schedule, so I was really happy when I finally found a group in April.

However, I feel really awkward at our gaming sessions.

I am a female in my late 30s and I have always been used to playing in mixed-gender groups. This group is all-male and I am the first female gamer they've ever had on board. I game with five guys all in their late 30s and early 40s - two are married, the rest are divorced. I am in a very happy long-term relationship.

It started out okay. In our first campaign I took over a male fighter someone had left behind and I enjoyed myself. I felt at home - I finally had somewhere to be geeky.

Then the new campaign started about a month later - the new GM set the campaign in a setting meant to evoke my family background and I was asked to play a female cleric ("because, well, it won't be difficult for you to play a smart girl with high Charisma"). Alarm bells went off and they have not stopped ringing, really.

As I am sitting here and trying to write this succinctly, I get even more uneasy. The GM frequently brushes his arm against mine, he's using in-game characters to flirt with my character, and he's made my character the central figure in the big plot we are unravelling. I get a lot of subtle compliments too - I am clever, I am a good leader, I played that instance really well .. I am uncomfortable and I have tried every trick in the book: talking about my boyfriend incessantly, not going along with the in-game flirting and generally shying away from interaction. I have even begun taking a different train to our gaming sessions as the GM usually takes the same train as me.

The other guys have also changed their behaviour around me - they are simultaneously more reverent towards anything I say and more innuendo-laden, if that makes sense. The two married guys are the only ones who have not changed their behaviours, thank heavens.

And it is spilling over into non-gaming life. When I joined the group, I also joined their FB page and friended everyone. The GM leaves remarks on posts and pictures calling me "a minx" in one instance. He's also befriended people (girls) from my old RPG group. Tellingly, he's not befriended my boyfriend. Likewise, the group has suggested I join them on cinema outings but when I say that my boyfriend might want to see the film too, it's made clear it's not a good idea.

I've spoken about all this with my non-gaming boyfriend who thinks the group just needs to get used to having a girl there. I have not mentioned the extra dollop of flirting though, because I want to handle this on my own. I am pretty miserable because I love tabletop gaming and I never asked for any extra attention - I just needed a place to get away from my busy work life.

So, should I keep going to these gaming sessions, rebuffing awkward advances and keep killing those orcs.. or do I need to find another gaming group (which will probably take me ages)?

(I realise I must have been lucky with my old RPG group because this sort of thing never came up.. is it usually difficult to be a girl gamer and not be treated weirdly?)

Good fantasy novels with female protagonists?

nonspecialist — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:07:16 -0800

Try as I might, I can only think of one fantasy novel that I've ever (*ever*) read that had a girl as the main character. Can you suggest some for my 8yo daughter? So as not to leave you hanging, the one novel I read was Terry Pratchett's "Equal Rites".

Miss 8 is reading at a very high level -- has gone through all Harry Potter books, is now reading Great Expectations, voluntarily, but what she really loves is a good fantasy book. The main problem is that it's really, really hard to find any which have a female main character; it's all "stable buy becomes ultra-powerful wizard, saves world" stuff, which is fine and all, but usually only contain female characters as incidental bits of trophy-fluff. As a good Dad, this is not a message I want my daughter to internalise.

What vaguely age-appropriate fantasy novels with strong female characters exist? Bonus points where the female character is not merely part of a group of ragtag orphans who save the world, unless they're all girls.

The BEST girl name!

smalls — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:15:12 -0800

Suggestions for girl names needed! We've got a few contenders, but nothing seems exactly right. It's time for another name my baby post! There have been some great posts on this in the past, so I thought I'd throw it out there.

Some info: We live in New England, our last name is obviously German (starts with an L, ends with "nn"), we're nerdy/outdoorsy types. We're leaning strongly toward Frances as a middle name.

Absolute NO's: Anything starting with a K (overabundance in family), anything ending with an -ee sound, must not be too popular

Our preferences: Names of two syllables or less, strong sounding female names, names that were popular 100+ years ago but are more obscure today. My husband has a preference for nature names, which I'm open to, but it seems hard to find many non-hippie sounding ones.

Top 3 Contenders - feel free to give opinions:
Georgia
Paige
Willow
A couple more we've considered:
Iris
Maeve
Maya (is too popular in our state so has been eliminated)

One sided friendship, or poor social skills?

Zapak — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:40:50 -0800

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out if a new friendship is one sided and should be tossed, or if I'm just not presenting myself well. Recently made an effort to become friends with a girl I had classes with at uni years ago. She works at a super mart now and we would stop and chat whenever we ran into each other. She seemed like a cool nerdy sort of person and lit up whenever she saw me, so not long ago, I got her to add me on Facebook. I FB messaged her and asked her to an event with some friends shortly afterwards. She said she probably couldn't go, so I left my number incase she changed her mind and made it out. Not long after that, I ran into her when I was meeting a friend on campus. We talked about job openings at her store (I'd mentioned I was looking for work) and when I went to meet my friend I found she had texted me with more info. I hadn't asked for her number, and she didn't really have much to say in the text. So, I took it as an invitation to talk. We texted back and forth for a while, sometimes for hours on end. Just BS. At first, the back and forth was pretty much mutual, both sides were invested. She talked quite a bit about herself, but it wasn't entirely one sided. She would text me goofy pictures, and ask occasional questions. I assumed she just liked to gab.

Recently though, whenever we talk it's entirely one sided. She always says hi when I see her in her store, and if I post a comment on something she wrote on FB, or see her in the store when she can't talk, she'll text me. Everything she has to say is nearly entirely about her though; Tests she has, her upcoming girls night out, etc. Last time I tried asking her something mutual (if she heard of a musical group), during a conversation she just ignored it until I texted again.

A few things of note: I'm a 23 year old boy, and she has a boyfriend. Initially I thought she might be flirting with me, but I'm not looking for a relationship right now and tried to keep things on a "friends" level. Not long after we started texting for hours on end, she sent me a bizzarre text about her being in love with her BF, and planning to have his babies some day. She wanted to make sure this was "bearable". I replied honestly, saying that I had thought she was flirting with me, but that she wasn't my type, and I hoped we were on the same page, and that was about that.

From the start I tried to make it clear I wasn't hitting on her. I said she should FB me and she did. I gave her my number, but didn't ask for hers. She gave it to me anyway when she texted me.

At this point I don't know if she's actively trying to be uninterested so she doesn't appear to be unfaithful, if her BF is pressuring her not to talk to me, if she's just self involved, or if she doesn't have any interest in me as a person.

I missed out on a lot of social skills growing up homeschooled in a cabin in the woods. So, I'm not really sure what's normal. She claims to be a socially awkward penguin, but seems pretty decent with people. This friendship is for me an experiment in having a close platonic female friend, the fact that she seems willing to talk (albeit about herself) seems like a good opportunity to try different things.

I'm not sure how to proceed. For the moment, I've been friendly but ignoring texts that have no obvious question or invitation to chat more. Am I supposed to insert myself into conversation and talk about what's going on in my life, or is this a lost cause? I understand people need a certain amount of give and take to be friends, but I don't want to keep asking her about herself and talking about what's going on in her life if she doesn't have any interest in reciprocating. I'm 95% sure if I text her right now she'll text me back within the hour, if not immediately. Though it will likely be entirely about her.

TL;DR: She's not asking questions or showing interest in me as a friend. I don't know if this is her being self involved, trying to not send the wrong signals, or if I just suck at putting myself out there (I'm a quiet guy) Should I insert myself into the conversation and try to share more without being asked, or move on?

Help overweight tween girl find clothes that fit

corb — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:42:19 -0800

Please help me find stylish, attractive clothes that fit well for a tween girl who is somewhat overweight and not particularly tall-especially jeans, other kinds of pants, bathing suits, and other such items where expected weight/height ratio really matters and can't be fudged in the way that dresses and skirts can. They should be relatively reasonably priced, but I'm willing to splurge if that's the only way this is fixable. Details: She is a bright, intelligent, amazing girl who is 9 years old and extremely fashion conscious. We used to love going shopping together, but now it breaks my heart to see her go into the dressing room carrying a heapful of interesting clothes, and walking out again sadly holding perhaps one item that only fits poorly and trying to see the best side of it. She is not obese by any stretch of the imagination-but she unfortunately carries most of her weight in her stomach. This means pants that she can manage to button or zip are too long. This would be fixable with hemming, but also they seem to not go up far enough to the waist, thus occasionally leaving her with "plumber" situation that is intensely embarrassing for her.

Help! I'm enough at my wits end that I'm considering having at least a few clothes tailored for her, but I've never had this done for a child, and have no idea where to go, how expensive it would be, or if it would even be possible to get "Everyday" clothing done. I have found some places online that offer "plus" sizes, but I haven't been able to find a place that explains just what sort of waist size fits what plus size. I would prefer in-person stores, but only if they offer enough of a selection likely to fit to make it worthwhile, and not leaving her feeling worse about herself. I realize the situation may not sound desperate, but there are complicating factors, including self-esteem issues on her part that make it somewhat dire.

Remind me what it's like to be 15!

JannaK — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:42:21 -0800

Help me find some quality books that would be easy reads for my 15-year old female cousin. I've started tutoring my 15 year old cousin, who is struggling a bit in her classes. She mentioned today that she has trouble finding books to read during free reading time in her English class. It's been a little while since my young-adult fiction years, so I'm hoping the hive has some recommendations.

My cousin is a former popular girl who's now falling victim to the "mean girls" and being ostracized at school. She hates her well-to-do suburban high school and can't wait to leave. While she despises the girl drama at school, she seems to love it on tv and in movies (Jersey Shore, America's Next Top Model, etc). I want to find books that have enough drama going on to be interesting to her, but perhaps with a little more substance than her current choices.

Right now, it seems like she mainly reads things like the Gossip Girl novelizations and other cheesy teen series. She mentioned that she started the book Speak by Laurie Halse Andersen and liked it a lot, so I'm hoping to come up with some more recommendations of well-written, quality teen lit that tackles subjects like friend issues, high school drama, fitting in, finding your niche, etc.

So far, I'm thinking Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli and The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Any other ideas, hivemind?

Gift Ideas for a 9-Year-Old Girl?

kirkaracha — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:41:19 -0800

What's a good gift for a 9-year-old girl? What would be a great gift for a 9-year-old girl? I need a gift for my goddaughter's birthday. She loves fairies and is getting a hand-me-down Kindle, but I'd appreciate any great gift suggestion. Thanks!

Daddy read me a story

sandraregina — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:14:40 -0800

What are some good chapter books to read to an almost-six year old girl? Asking on behalf of a friend, her father. She's neither a girly-girl nor a tomboy, and the preference is for stories with good solid female characters in them (even if they aren't the main character).
These would be books for dad to read to her, not necessarily for her to read on her own.

A dilemna about prisoners

Sunburnt — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:48:15 -0800

In fiction, an adolescent girl is imprisoned, and can only communicate with a mysterious fellow prisoner she's never met. They can only communicate in code, a plausible code that teaches the girl how to encode information into her world's predominant technology. This is two books I've read, actually. "Glory Season" by David Brin features a plucky protagonist imprisoned and an unknown prisoner passes her a gameboard that plays Conway's Life, a competitive variant of which happens to be the most popular game on the planet.

In “The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer," Neal Stephenson presents an adolescent girl who studies the primer, which is a kind of computerized interactive book that contains a puzzle she must pass. In it, the girl learns binary code because the communicative prisoner lowers to her cell a long chain in which each link has an on-off switch. After she makes her switch-changes to the links/bits, the chain is hauled back up by an unseen mechanism.

Both books were written, IIRC, in the mid-90s, plausibly at the same time, and while I don't discount that the authors knew each other, nor do I think either stole from the other, and I've always wondered if this scene or these elements came from a common source-- some Socratic speculation or some third book I've never read, some collective unconscious thing I've never noticed. Does this ring a bell?

What to get my little female professor for Christmas?

pearlybob — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:17:37 -0800

Help me find AWESOME Christmas gifts for my smart girl... Mu 11 year old daughter is very geeky, gifted, smart and full of AWESOME! And very hard to buy for. We have a 4 year old too so Santa still is a big part of our Holiday but I'm lost on what to get her for Christmas. My husband is also a techno geek so she already has every gadget....she loves cooking and is obsessed with dogs, we have two. She can take a Macbook apart and put it back together in minutes. She has no interest in clothes or typical tween stuff, We have some books and a lego robot coming that she'll love but what else? Any ideas for an awesome, smart young girl? Especially since I want to foster that love of learning and exploration....

correct usage of pronouns for women

aloiv2 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:19:49 -0800

Guy, boy, gal, girl. What's offensively diminutive, what's acceptable? I am a guy.
When talking about other men, I generally use the term "guy", such as: "that guy over there", or "that group of guys".

When referring to people of the feminine persuasion, I can never decide what word to use.

I usually default to "girl(s)", but I realize that can be diminutive and sexist.

"Gal(s)" feels sort of out-moded, like I'm trying to be a character in a western.

"Woman/Women" feels sort of clunky and doesn't seem to represent people of my generation who seem to be resistant to growing up.

"Lady/Ladies" is one that I sometimes use, but it feels sort of hipstery and somewhat out-moded (though FWIW I have found that a lot of my female friends have taken to referring to their womanly parts as "lady-bits"...but maybe that's just something with my social circle).

Previously, though along a different line.

Also, in reference to that last article, I live in the Northeast USA, but have traveled/lived around the USA and Canada.

Who made this artwork?

HylandErickson — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:24:15 -0800

Does anyone know the origins of this image? I am trying to use it for something and would like to contact the original artist: image.jpg I've checked TinEye, but no luck, since it's been reblogged many times.

Fashion 101 for the Tall and Clueless

sunnychef88 — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:03:52 -0800

How can a tall 20-something female become fashionable on a budget? Help me, Metafi-ites! My outfits are utterly plain, and I'm looking for tips on how to become more stylish while flattering my tall figure. I don't know much about what's in or what you have to worry about when you're putting an outfit together since I get overwhelmed with all the choices and information out there. Trying to have more fun with clothing being a young n' single grad student! My daily outfit consists of a solid color cotton or button down shirt, black or khaki shorts/capris/jeans, and flip flops or ballet flats. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Here are my three constraints:
1) Budget. I don't have much to spend. I typically shop at TJ Maxx and Marshalls, and Target/Gap and J Crew sales and outlet stores.

2) Funky measurements. I'm 6' tall with a long inseam and pear shaped figure. Size 6/8, 34" inseam, and have broad shoulders, flat stomach/small waist, wide hips and a proportionally large booty n' thighs. Lately all the tees I've tried on in stores have looked too long on me, but I'm not sure how long a shirt is supposed to look...

3) Keepin' it classy. Nothing too flashy or revealing - gotta look professional!

Fashion tips to flatter the amazonian figure, stores to shop at, wardrobe staples, little tricks for jazzing up/combining the same pieces/adding cuteness are all welcome. Please and thank you!

Massage Questions (sorry no snarky title)

Napierzaza — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:42:10 -0800

First time massage. It's a legit massage. I'm a guy, I wonder if I should get a guy or a girl to do it? Not sure which would be more awkward really. What is the norm for this sort of thing? Also, what are the norms of tipping? I can barely tip functionally at restaurants without getting anxious. I don't even know where to begin with what to tip for a massage.

Fiction book about generational suicides?

futz — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:36:26 -0800

Looking for the title of a book that I read in the mid 90's. It is a "fanciful" fictional book about a family (generations of family) end up committing suicide in very strange ways. My library had a list of books that said "if you like this author, you may like this...". I think the author I chose was Louise Erdrich. I believe that the cover of the book had a hand drawn picture of a girl swirling upside down. The book was told from her point of view. Also, all of the characters in the book were aware that suicide was their fate, a family condition. Does this ring any bells? whatshouldireadnext.com failed me. And no, I am not looking to harm myself. I used the word "fanciful" to describe the book b/c I don't remember any of the characters being depressed.

REMEMBER BRICK? ...remember brick?...

0BloodyHell — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:59:21 -0800

Remember Brick, from Malcolm in the Middle? He used to do this thing where he'd say something, and then whisper it again to himself. My kid does this. What does it mean? My younger daughter, six, does this. Though usually whole sentences, not just a word. She's a pretty bright kid, but I'm probably not objective, very creative, and very excitable. For maybe the last four months she's been doing this. One friend mentioned ADD and I think that's a bit rash. But I can't quite figure out why she might be doing it. If you ask her, she denies she does it.

She's a great kid but does have focus issues. Is this meaningless, or does it have any significance. Anyone else ever observed this?

Help me find this children's book about a girl and her hamster

Encipher — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:12:31 -0800

Help me find a half-remembered children's book about a little girl and her pet, and what they say when they get the chance to speak one sentence to each other. This book is extremely vague in my memory but it made a big impression on me. I've been thinking about it for years on and off.

It was a kid's book which I would have read in the 80s/early 90s, although it could have been from any time before then.

The basic plot is that of a little girl (could have been a boy but think it was more likely a girl) with a pet. (I seem to remember the pet being either a hamster or a guinea-pig, or some kind of cage-dwelling animal, but again it was a long time ago.) I think it had illustrations, but wasn't necessarily a picture book.

For some reason the girl and the pet both realise that they are going to have a chance to speak to each other, but only one phrase/sentence. I have a vague recollection that this happens on the stroke of midnight or noon. The girl spends all day thinking about what to say to the hamster/pet/whatever it was and when it comes down to it they both say to each other:

'I love you'

Yes, it does sound super sappy, but it was cute, and googling has led me precisely nowhere.

Has anyone else ever heard of this or did I dream it?

Help us with a girl's name?

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:47:19 -0800

My husband and I are expecting our first baby, a girl, in less than 3 months. Please help us with the name! I know there have been many questions over the years on baby names, so I'm sorry for adding another one. But of course every situation is unique, and every parent is looking for something different.

We are expecting a girl in October. In general, we prefer classic names over trendy ones. But I also want to avoid a "girly"-sounding name, as I have always been a tomboy.... so we have been considering more gender-neutral names. We also don't want to pick the most common name in the world, so she isn't one of 5 girls with the same name in her class.

We were about 90% settled on "Riley". But now I'm starting to have second thoughts... do you think that name sounds trashy for a girl? I was searching on the internet and came across a message board where someone said it was a trashy name, like Jasmine or Nevaeh. I am aware that the name is gaining in popularity in some areas, especially in the U.S. But we live in Canada and I have not really heard it as a popular name here (although I could be wrong, since I don't hang out with toddlers much!). We would definitely go with the spelling "Riley", though I know that many people use variations such as "Ryleigh" or "Rylee" - but I find these incredibly irritating.

If you don't like the name Riley, do you have any other suggestions? We also like Zoe a lot, but it seems to be extremely popular lately. The middle name will most likely be Elizabeth, and our last name starts with a W. (As for other popular gender-neutral names like Emerson, Avery, and Mackenzie... those are really not my style.)

Any help is appreciated! It's such a huge responsibility to name a child, and I don't want us to regret our choice in a few years.

Who's that girl?

LittleMissItneg — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:43:23 -0800

I am trying to find this 1980s-1990s serial killer movie about a mute girl (from what I can remember always wear black clothes) and that on one of the scenes, a chopped body of a person was shown from a trash bag or something. Anyone known the title of the movie? I watched around early 1990s.