Posted by IsoM on January 19, 2002, at 11:58:41
In reply to Re: The gender of forms » IsoM, posted by medlib on January 19, 2002, at 3:30:56
I liked reading your "frivolously ramblings", Medlib. So ramble away. I call my ramblings, blitherings. :)
About forms, it's a little different for me. Many objects don't have a gender for me, just the smaller ones I use or manipulate. As a child, I used to play with buttons for hours on end as my Mom had a big button box with all sorts. Some were fancy with rhinestones in them, some flat & plain - all types. For me the fancy ones were aristocracy, big flat buttons were carriages, etc. They all had personalities and/or gender. I built a society out of them.
I did the same thing with those little plastic toy animals in my sandbox.
For me, 5, 7, & 8 are male; 1, 2, 4 are female; 3 & 6 are children. 9 is the 'big boss' & 0 doesn't feel like anything. Even my different fingers have gender feeling to them. I also used to draw little faces on the back tips of my fingers & play with them when small. Nature, to me, is more male feeling than female too. Time is genderless, wonderfully abstract feeling.
I realise I sound a little nuts, but hey! I never was or get bored.
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> IsoM--
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> I think there may be a human instinct to regard those forms containing curved shapes and/or obtuse angles as feminine and forms expressed by long, straight lines and/or acute angles as masculine.
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> With numerals, that would make 0, 2, 3, 6, and 8 feminine and 1, 4, 7 masculine. 5 and 9 might be transgender, depending on type font. Of course, 10 is clearly bisexual! Do you sense them that way?
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> Have you ever considered why Nature is a Mother and Time is a Father? I think it's because nature is mostly curved and time has been thought of as linear (at least until Einstein got hold of it).
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> A frivolously rambling medlib
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