• Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
    1293·
    11 months ago

    That’s kind of how stage names work.

    I’ve insisted people call me “esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie” for months and only like 2 people here ever did that. Breaks my heart.💔

  • BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world
    64·
    11 months ago

    Vin Diesels real name is Mark Sinclair and weve all accepted that too. Marilyn Manson’s name is Brian Warner and Alice Cooper was born Vincent Furnier. Stage names are pretty common with performers

    • chepox@sopuli.xyz
      27·
      11 months ago

      I had to double back to your comment because at first I glances at it and thought yeah… Then I thought about it some more and thought … Yes! That is exactly how they work. Papers plus or minus but that is the way they work. We all agree upon it and bam. You are now named!

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
        93·
        11 months ago

        I found out about him in Guitar Hero 2(?) because Soothsayer is on there and was the only song that used all 4 fret buttons even on the easiest settings (which would normally limit the fret buttons needed to just the first 3). I couldn’t physically press all 4 buttons at once (the distance between them was such that my pinky didn’t quite reach enough to actually press the last button in) which was why I only ever played at Medium or lower.

    • kellyaster@kbin.social
      224·
      11 months ago

      In case people don’t know, JK Rowling’s pen name is a reference to Robert Galbraith Heath, a psychiatrist who experimented with gay conversion therapy in the 60s and 70s using surgically implanted electrodes on gay men’s brains. He claims to have “cured” one of them. He did lots of other fucked up things too, and of course Rowling denies her pen name has anything to do with him. FWIW, she also claims she’s not a bigot, but her words and actions clearly indicate otherwise.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
        89·
        11 months ago

        JK Rowling’s pen name is a reference to Robert Galbraith Heath, a psychiatrist who experimented with gay conversion therapy in the 60s and 70s using surgically implanted electrodes on gay men’s brains.

        Unless thats some conservative dog whistle I don’t know about, (and I’m no JKR apologist) your statement directly contradicts her own official answer as to the origin of the name:

        Why the name Robert Galbraith?

        I chose Robert because it’s one of my favourite men’s names, because Robert F Kennedy
 is my hero and because, mercifully, I hadn’t used it for any of the characters in the
 Potter series or The Casual Vacancy.

Galbraith came about for a slightly odd reason. When I was a child,
 I really wanted to be called ‘Ella Galbraith’, and I’ve no idea why.
 I don’t even know how I knew that the surname existed, because
 I can’t remember ever meeting anyone with it. Be that as it may,
 the name had a fascination for me. I actually considered calling
 myself L A Galbraith for the Strike series, but for fairly obvious 
reasons decided that initials were a bad idea.

Odder still, there was a well-known economist called 
J K Galbraith, something I only remembered by the time it was
 far too late. I was completely paranoid that people might take 
this as a clue and land at my real identity, but thankfully nobody
 was looking that deeply at the author’s name.

        source

    • 4am@lemm.ee
      4·
      11 months ago

      They love him after he called transgender people a “fad” so

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
    163·
    11 months ago

    All I know is that I love it when they call me big papa.

    Often, while waving their hands in the air like they just don’t care.