New baby born to a FB friend

lupineaura · May 2014

Name is Lux. I immediately wondered your thoughts.

Sex is unknown- last I heard the parents weren't going to tell anyone unless they were helping change diapers. Behindthename has it listed as both masculine and feminine.

Very cute baby.

WashingtonQueen · May 2014

I've only heard of female Luxs. I really dislike it for male or female.

KTZ17 · May 2014

Why would they post photos of their baby and tell their baby's name but not share the sex? They're already putting so much out there, it seems quite weird. And I do not like Lux.

lupineaura · May 2014

I don't think they are keeping it a huge secret (like, I haven't heard them say, "if you know don't tell"); I believe it is an attempt to prevent people from imposing culturally-based gender standards onto their baby. I don't think it's to protect online privacy.

KTZ17 · May 2014

Yeah, as a mom who doesn't dress her daughter in head to toe pink nor slap huge floral headbands on her, I get the desire to lessen the effect of gender stereotyping, but I don't see that happening by not telling people the sex of your baby.

lupineaura · May 2014

The baby was just born today, so not much on FB about him/her yet. Previous posts referred to baby as Baby, and the status update gave the name and stats, no pronouns were really needed. I guess I'll see what they do as time goes on. Based on pronouns in comments from others, I do think Lux is a girl (although those people might just be assuming, I don't know them well enough to tell their friends from family on FB).

I was more intrigued by the name. My main hesitation is that some use it as a synonym for "luxurious." I think the actual meaning is nice, but I don't think I'd use it myself.

evaazalea · May 2014

My best friend's DS is named Lux. Judging my stats in my Provience it is more popular for girls though.

Jags8 · May 2014

Lux to me is a girl name. I believe it is Greek for "light"??

Edit- it's Latin, but I was right on the meaning

JadaBlue · May 2014

I wonder if the use of Lux has been inspired by The Virgin Suicides? I've never heard the name outside of that book.

saham07 · May 2014

My very first thought on this was, so sad that the parents can't embrace and celebrate the gender of their child. Boys and girls are different from each other and each should be celebrated! I don't buy the gender stereotyping stuff. I have seen parents do this (to a lesser degree) and when the kids get old enough to want to dress and act more like their gender peers, the kids often seem to feel guilty about going against their parents hard work at keeping it gender neutral. (She was a closet princess) Embrace who they are! Celebrate the baby you have been given.

BC&LM · May 2014

Hate it!

absolutelymaybe · May 2014

For some weird reason I kind of like the name. As for the parents, I can totally get behind not wanting your child gender stereotyped, but I think hiding the sex is the wrong way to go about it. Hiding something to me screams being ashamed of it.