Gender Blender Name/Quotes

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Receptionist: ...You're the two o'clock?
Bowler Hat Guy: Yes!
Receptionist: ...You're Mary Smith.
Bowler Hat Guy: Err... It's short for... um... er...
Receptionist: ...Marion?
Bowler Hat Guy: ...Uh, can that be a boy's name?
Receptionist: *stares*
Bowler Hat Guy: Oooh! Yes! Yes it is!

Jayne: Well, as a rule, I say girlfolk ain't to be trusted.
River: Jayne is a girl's name.
Jayne: Well, Jayne ain't a girl! She starts in on that girl's name thing, I'll show her, good an' all, I got man parts!
Simon: I'm trying to think of a way for you to be cruder. It's just...it's not coming.

Firefly, "Trash"

"My father's name was Mary, his father's name was Mary, and his father's name was Craig."

—Mary Lightly, Psych

"'Kamille?' I thought I heard a girl's name, but that's clearly a boy."

—Jerrid Messa, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, inadvertently kicking off a war that would soon end up killing millions of civilians.