Have we talked about Dave Mustaine's singing daughter yet?

Freud chose the name Elektra just to have a female equivalent to the Oedipus complex.

In mythology, most notably in Sophocles's trilogy, the Oresteia, Elektra and her brother Orestes murder their mother Klytymnestra as an act of revenge, since she murdered their father. That's it.

Then there was the Marvel comic character.

It'd be fucked up if you named your child Oedipus. But this isn't the same thing, and the reach for Freudian psychology shouldn't be the first association, that's just a stretch.

And it should count for something that I would love to jump on the anti-Mustaine bandwagon, since most metal is beneath human dignity.
 
I probably wouldn't either, but I wouldn't name my daughter Jane or Maggie or Mary, either.

In any of those instances, though, I wouldn't think twice about anyone else who did.

At any rate, if I ever have another daughter, I'll definitely be naming her after either George Eliot or George Sand.
 
Dogsinotpalc said:
Electra is a stripper and/or porn star name (not that there's anything wrong with that), not a name you actually give to your daughter.
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I don't see it that way. Should she be named Mary? In the Bible, one Mary was an unwed mother and the other a prostitute. Names are just names, and Electra is, in my mind, a nice enough one.
 
Gary Blanchard said:
I don't see it that way. Should she be named Mary? In the Bible, one Mary was an unwed mother and the other a prostitute. Names are just names, and Electra is, in my mind, a nice enough one.
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Unwed mothers and prostitutes aren't issues and never should have been. That said, there continues to be debate about Ms. Magdalene's actual life and "profession", often mixed with other unrelated aspects of ancient stories making her out to have been a prostitute. Other stories speak of her as a merchant of fabrics.

That said, biblical names hold no importance, they are merely names. I was being all tongue and cheeky, in how society projects notions based on would (read should) be trivialities like gender, age, race, faith, names, where we live, where we're from, the clothes we wear, the food we eat, the music we listen to, what we read, etc. All of these things may shape us and make us who we are, but they should be of little consequence or concern to others. Our actions should speak far more loudly any of these other things.
 
Gary Blanchard said:
I don't see it that way. Should she be named Mary? In the Bible, one Mary was an unwed mother and the other a prostitute. Names are just names, and Electra is, in my mind, a nice enough one.
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I heard that Mr. Mustaine was going to call his daughter Acousta, until he played at the Newport Folk Festival :wink:
 
Dogsinotpalc said:
Unwed mothers and prostitutes aren't issues and never should have been. That said, there continues to be debate about Ms. Magdalene's actual life and "profession", often mixed with other unrelated aspects of ancient stories making her out to have been a prostitute. Other stories speak of her as a merchant of fabrics.

That said, biblical names hold no importance, they are merely names. I was being all tongue and cheeky, in how society projects notions based on would (read should) be trivialities like gender, age, race, faith, names, where we live, where we're from, the clothes we wear, the food we eat, the music we listen to, what we read, etc. All of these things may shape us and make us who we are, but they should be of little consequence or concern to others. Our actions should speak far more loudly any of these other things.
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Just making a point that names are just names. I guess the "stripper or hooker name" comment triggered something in me.
 
Dogsinotpalc said:
Electra is a stripper and/or porn star name (not that there's anything wrong with that), not a name you actually give to your daughter.
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My ex-boss is named Electra. She's from rural Texas (Waller county) and it's a family name. In fact she has a 6 y/o niece also named Electra (nicknamed Little Lecki).

She looks kinda like Naomi Watts and is very kind despite her wicked, seriously raunchy sense of humor. Best damned boss I ever had; we worked together for close to 12 years and I came this close to tears when she left the company a month ago tomorrow.
 
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