A woman has been praised for her reaction to her sister's pregnancy news after she announced she would be naming her children after two American universities.
The woman took to online social forum Reddit to explain her sister, who is pregnant with twin boys, had decided to name them after the universities she and her partner went to - Stanford and Yale.
The anonymous user admitted she first congratulated her sister upon learning the names, texted her later to tell her the names were "ridiculous".
This led to her being uninvited from the wedding "until she sincerely apologises".
She has since asked Reddit users if she was being unreasonable, as her brother noted that she "should've kept my thoughts to myself".
Writing on the website, the woman said: "I’m the youngest of three siblings. There’s me, my sister, and my brother.
Out of the three of us, my sister is the one who "made it" (her words). She attended Yale law school and is engaged to a neurosurgeon who attended Stanford medical school.
"Over the years, it’s become clear that she looks down on me and my brother because we aren’t as ambitious/successful/credentialed as she is.
"My sister has expressed her astonishment that the family business is profitable even though someone who got C’s in high school and never went to college (aka me) has been running the day-to-day operations for 10+ years.
"She also once told my brother to his face that he "wasted his potential" (context: he was the valedictorian of his high school class, just like her) by dropping out of college to help Mum run the family business after Dad passed away.
"My sister and her partner recently posted that she is pregnant with twin boys, and their names would be Stanford and Yale.
The woman continued: "I commented “Congratulations!” but later I texted her to say that it wasn’t right to give the boys ridiculous names that would put them under immense pressure to succeed from a very young age.
"I also asked her about what would happen if one or both of them weren’t as successful/perfect as she hoped.
"She didn’t like the points that I made. She texted back, 'I wasn’t asking for opinions, especially from someone like you. Consider yourself uninvited from our wedding until you sincerely apologize'."
"To be honest, I was already leaning towards not attending due to her condescending attitude towards me, but the "someone like you" comment sealed the deal.
"I told my brother what happened, but he said that I should've kept my thoughts to myself."
Reddit users flocked to the woman's defence, and joked at the sister's expense at the ridiculous nature of how she named her children.
One Reddit user wrote: "Ask her why the kids should be reminded on a daily basis that she didn't get into Harvard Law?
"Don't go the wedding she sounds insufferable."
Another said: "Parents should be steered away from giving their children highly bully-able names."
A third wrote: "You brought this up in private (the way such things should be, especially when first broaching a subject like this), and, frankly, someone needs to tell her that kids are meant to be their own people.
"She's about to give birth to two trophies to her career accomplishments, and I feel very, very bad for the kids. Given her attitude, I'm not surprised this didn't change anything, but good on you for trying."
And one added: "Calling kids by school names is ridiculous. If she wants to give them "educated" names, she has so many possibilities - first names of savants, first names using etymology.
"Calling kids "Yale" and "Stanford" sounds really pretentious."
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