Prejudice
I just had a moment of prejudice. I'm sure we all have moments of prejudice all the time, but I was surprised by how instantly this one took effect and how quickly I realized it.
I e-mailed a company I've never worked with about a print job I'm working on - filled out one of those "request a quote" forms on their website. I got an e-mail response pretty quickly, and read through it. The instant I got to the bottom, and saw it was signed by a person named Tracy, I instantly felt like I should trust this person.
Obviously this is because I've known more than one Tracy in my life and they've all been good people. So I clearly associate this name with trustworthiness. But it was funny and disconcerting to me to have such a strong response to something as arbitrary as a name.
I am such a name-ist.
Comments
What's the plural for tracies?
Posted by: Wil | 4:41PM, 11.08.07
You tracist!
Posted by: Erik R. | 5:15PM, 11.08.07
Dammit. Erik said what I was going to say.
I'm partial to certain names too and make generalizations about the person because of their name.
Posted by: jane | 7:02PM, 11.08.07
I think it's safe to assume that Erik will always be the first one to come out with a pun.
Posted by: andrea | 7:18PM, 11.08.07
Agreed.
All the Eriks/Erics I know are like that....
Posted by: jane | 8:38PM, 11.08.07
Heh.
Posted by: andrea | 10:07PM, 11.08.07
Wow... trusting a Tracy?
Sheesh... what is this world coming to? :)
Posted by: Tracy | 11:30PM, 11.08.07