Posted by lou pilder on January 19, 2002, at 7:32:58
In reply to Re: The gender of forms » IsoM, posted by medlib on January 19, 2002, at 3:30:56
>
> > Seamus, do you get a feel about inanimate objects whether they're male or female? I do about some things like cutlery or other small objects. For example, a knife is male but spoons are female to me - same with numbers, some are male, some female.
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> IsoM--
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> 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).
>
> A frivolously rambling medlibNot frivolous at all. I believe that the Babbledom people will find a way to reverse the music so that it will stop. I percieve a collection of great minds here. We shall find the solution. Ten Babbledom people equal one nonBabbledom person. (Lou's Law of Babbledom)
poster:lou pilder
thread:16798
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20020112/msgs/16968.html