{"id":7789,"date":"2008-02-21T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7789"},"modified":"2010-07-19T05:07:42","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T09:07:42","slug":"sheila-omalley-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7789","title":{"rendered":"Sheila OMalley? NO."},"content":{"rendered":"

No shit!<\/a><\/p>\n

I have had all of those experiences described in the article.<\/p>\n

I’m with you, ODowd. I have been there. Repeatedly. I have edited my own damn name<\/em>, in order to make a computer “accept” me. I have succumbed to the idiocy of the computer programmers because I need to exist, in this world, and I need to be able to fill out forms and vote and get on planes. But I do it all UNDER PROTEST. Because I know my own name, thankyouverymuch, colonial vestiges or no. And last time I checked, there was an apostrophe in it. (Or to quote Izzard: “We pronounce ‘herb’ ‘H-erb’ – because there’s a fucking ‘h’ in it.”) Irish names have been around way longer than computers, and it’s not like we are a RECENT influx of immigrants and computers have to catch up with the blossoming demographic. Come on. We’ve been here since the beginning. It’s not OMalley. It’s just not! Additionally: to abbreviate my last name as “O” is incorrect. It’s Sheila O’M. This has been drummed into my brain repeatedly since I was a kid. So if someone unknowingly believes that O’Malley shortened is “O”, I feel I must correct them. It’s my name. There’s nothing casual<\/i> about a name. It irritates me when I am FORCED to misspell it in order for a computer <\/em>to recognize me. John Proctor haunts me in this regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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