Am I the only one who thinks this is an unfortunate name for a

[rzemanfl]

feminist?

"Are we going backward here?" said City Controller Laura Chick. "We are a city with all kinds of progressive programs that empower women and end discrimination in the workplace, and now we're being connected with a Hooters bikini contest. It isn't right."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2127877

[Kutjara]

1. For awhile now, the New Scientist magazine has...

...been inviting readers to write in with real-life examples of people whose names fit their careers (e.g. Dr. Pill, Reverend Priestly). The mag has even given the phenomenon a name: "nominative determinism". You appear to have discovered an example of the opposite phenomenon: names that are absolutely wrong for their owners' jobs. I wonder what it should be called?

[rzemanfl]

2. So Joe Liegal, the lawyer I knew years ago, was a victim of

"nominative determinism?"

[Kutjara]

3. He certainly was.

Here's a Wikipedia article about it, along with a list of nominally deterministic names:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_Determinism