Robin

Have a theory that once a name becomes unisex it's only a matter of time before it goes all-female, parents shunning the name for their boy children. "Leslie" is a clear example.

But "Robin" has been unisex for at least 100 years, and doesn't seem to be shifting; at least that's my impression, though the baby-name sites tend to list it only as a girl's name, and as a girl's name its popularity has been plummeting since the '60s. BUT: when I type the name into Google, Google suggests the following in order of popularity: Robin Williams (male), Robin Thicke (male), Robin Hood (male), Robin Meade (female), Robin Trower (male), Robin Wright Penn (female), Robin Givens (female), Robins Federal Credit Union (n/a), Robin Tunney (female), Robin Söderling (male). So it's clearly still a viable male name, unless its viability has ended too recently for me to notice.

EDIT: Here's graphic info for the popularity of Robin as a boy's and girl's over time. It's been more popular as a girl's name than a boy's, but the rise and decline in both seems proportional (boy's name peaking slightly earlier, which means parents of boys fled the name slightly earlier than parents of girls). Here's the same info for Leslie, and the difference is drastic, going from almost all male in the 1920s to almost all female in the 1950s. And for the hell of it, here's the info for Jordan, which went from all male in the early '70s to one-quarter female in the mid '80s, and it's been holding proportional ever since then (which challenges my theory; maybe things are changing). I've got more info in the comments.

Buffy Season Two Episode Eleven

Episode title: Three's Company.

(Just kidding. It's really "Ted.")

I don't have strong feelings about this episode, though it was done steadily enough, no one out of character, no false shifts in tone. And Gellar was excellent going from suspicion and petulance to remorse, so the moments when she gets to let loose and fight come as a strong relief, as if they really take her back to herself. The episode nicely makes us a little uneasy about Buffy's apparent license to kill, without sloshing us in the uneasiness. John Ritter, as Buffy's mom's suitor, is good at seeming a bit off in his goodness; so we're with Buffy in her suspicions (and we would be anyway, given that the episode is called "Ted," and no one else in it seems a candidate for monster). We also eventually get an explanation for why none of the others join Buffy in her early suspicions (they're all eating the feel-good food).

I did enjoy watching, of course. My relative noninvolvement is probably because there was no real tension between Buffy and her friends. They're fundamentally with her even before they're with her, and anything else would have been out of character. The Cordy-Xander soap opera and the Rupert-Jenny soap opera feel alluded to more than deeply embodied.