Southwest Airlines apologises for mocking girl's name

[Whiskeytide]

107. No one is saying the woman cannot ...

... name her child whatever she wants. The point is that it can have rather obvious consequences that you have to accept and be prepared to deal with.

Celebrities who name their children odd names are doing it for the attention it gets. Moon Unit, North West, etc... It seems that is what this mother did as well. This child did not choose her name. Mom thought is was clever, and that it would garner attention - for HER. (“Oh look what I did with my kid’s name - isn’t that the coolest thing”). She did it, obviously, with very little consideration for the impact it might have on her child.

The gate attendant should have shown more professionalism, I agree. But for this woman to claim victim status for herself and her daughter is just more evidence that attention is her goal. Her problem is that the little girl is getting old enough to realize that mom might be a little foolish. I suspect that is just going to become more apparent to her with time.