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Do y'all name or otherwise anthropomorphize your cars? What about computers? And what gender do you tend to assign to them?
Obviously, I do, but that's because I name goddamn everything. I always have. Even occasionally household appliances if they are quirky/annoying/amusing enough to warrant a name and a personality. Of course when you start relating to inanimate objects as not-quite-people, it does make them harder to let go of sometimes - case in point the ancient computer tower I've still got in storage and refuse to get rid of, lol. Hey, my Master Freak was a good little computer! He got me through the hell that was college, okay?
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cell23 and I were debating the gender of cars last night - he holds that cars, ships and other vessels are always female. Clearly, considering Hanzo-san, I disagree with that sentiment, and also know a few people with male vehicles (captainlove and Mr. Sundance, for example.) Course, when you think about it, all my machines are kind of genderfucked - EPEEN's name is essentially "electronic penis" but I use feminine pronouns for her.
Anyway. ASSUAGE MY CURIOSITY INTERNET MONKEYS.
Obviously, I do, but that's because I name goddamn everything. I always have. Even occasionally household appliances if they are quirky/annoying/amusing enough to warrant a name and a personality. Of course when you start relating to inanimate objects as not-quite-people, it does make them harder to let go of sometimes - case in point the ancient computer tower I've still got in storage and refuse to get rid of, lol. Hey, my Master Freak was a good little computer! He got me through the hell that was college, okay?
Reason I ask -
cell23 and I were debating the gender of cars last night - he holds that cars, ships and other vessels are always female. Clearly, considering Hanzo-san, I disagree with that sentiment, and also know a few people with male vehicles (captainlove and Mr. Sundance, for example.) Course, when you think about it, all my machines are kind of genderfucked - EPEEN's name is essentially "electronic penis" but I use feminine pronouns for her. Anyway. ASSUAGE MY CURIOSITY INTERNET MONKEYS.
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Date: 2010-02-01 01:38 am (UTC)From:ive only owned two cars, one of which was mama cass. suffice to say, i don't name my cars anymore, either. ;) (altho that one came pre-christened.) cass was somewhat genderless, or maybe transgendered, since the name was feminine but the personality i considered masculine. i think of my current car as masculine, too.
my computer has been zakaree from the time i built it in 2001. ive replaced/upgraded several components since then, so i could wax philosophical about whether it's still zakaree at this point, but you get the idea.