crystal = trashy?

Until I was twenty years old, I think I had only met one or two other Crystals in my life (btw, 90% of us spell it just the way it should be...the Ch, Kry varieties are few and far between). Now they seem to be everywhere. There are three in my company...two of them in my department. They're all over the Internet, as I'm sure you know. And they are on TV a LOT...but here's my beef:

Why are all the Crystals you see on the Net or on TV trashy girls?

A friend of mine from England always used to tease me when he first knew me...about how Crystal is a trailer trash name there. I never believed him but now I am beginning to wonder all around. Springer always has a Crystal on the show (a recent one I caught had a fat Crystal in a kiddie pool full of mud with a pig), as does Dr. Phil. If you ever see a Crystal being quoted in a news story they're usually toothless hillbillies or they have such terrible grammar skills that you can barely understand what they are saying.

Granted, I'm older than most of them, so one would think that my name came about on the early side of the naming trend. There is a theory about how names come about, starting with affluent parents and then trickling down to the masses until the affluent parents move on to other names. But my parents were never overly affluent. Just your typical middle-class family. I think it was a result of my father liking unusual names more than anything. They weren't even hippies.

I have always loved my name because it was different and fairly unique. Now though, I find that whenever I see another Crystal on tv or see a picture on the Net, I just want to cringe. My god you Crystals, can't you brush your hair, cover up just a little (there is a HUGE difference between sexy and trashy, sigh), lose some weight, stop smoking dope, walk out on the abusive boyfriends and quit making me want to cover my ears (lots of overly freaky religious Crystals) and eyes?

Sigh.

If you ever saw the show Dead Like Me, there was a fat ugly Crystal who worked in reception. Stranger still, one of her coworkers was a sweet pretty thing named Misty. My sister's name is Misty...very strange to see two characters with those names on TV!