anthropomorphism (feelings, everything, therapy, parent)

[rjshae]

Originally Posted by Sassybluesy

Have you ever attributed human traits to inanimate objects? Sometimes I do. Mostly, I assign genders to inanimate objects.

The French and Spanish already do that.

[silibran]

I used to see three oak tree on vacant land by a road I often traveled. I thought of them as three sisters. Eventually the land was developed and the trees were done away with. Later, I noticed from my deck that there were three large oaks adjacent to each other on our property. I thought of them as three sisters.

See, I am one of three sisters.

Mostly I do not ascribe names or genders to inanimate things. Sometime I have wondered how a cast off inanimate thing feels. But of course, inanimate things don’t have emotions.

I have never named a vehicle.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by CarolinaMoon1

What a great memory, and sad day when they were taken down. We're cut from the same cloth on this, Nicci6Squirrels!

Um, yes, I DO talk to trees. I have certain ones for which I have strong feelings.

[Lodestar]

I've done this all my life with animals. My father also was a great story teller. Perhaps it started with the folk tale "The Three Billy Goats Gruff."

This morning my cat was passive-aggressive. She likes to wake me with a single claw lightly touched to the end of my nose. It's an irritating way to be awakened and I scold her when she does it.

This morning she got in bed, back to me, and gently "just accidently" swished her tail back and forth across my face. I woke up grabbing her tail envisioning a creature running across my face.

When I made a fuss she looked at me like, "Who me? How am I supposed to know what my tail is doing?"

She's not only passive-aggressive but also disingenuous. Just prove she isn't!

[steiconi]

Numbers have gender. 2, 6, and 9 are female. 8 is a compassionate male.
Letters, too. A, Q, S, V, Y are female, the rest male.

I usually think of dogs as male and cats as female.

[silibran]

Originally Posted by steiconi

Numbers have gender. 2, 6, and 9 are female. 8 is a compassionate male.
Letters, too. A, Q, S, V, Y are female, the rest male.

I usually think of dogs as male and cats as female.

I always thought of the number 5 as a braggart male. But I don’t really ascribe anything else to any other numbers.

[Sassybluesy]

Originally Posted by silibran

I always thought of the number 5 as a braggart male. But I don’t really ascribe anything else to any other numbers.

I love you and Steiconi now, because you get it. LOL

[ocnjgirl]

Originally Posted by Sassybluesy

Not really what I meant, but I don't mind the diversion.


Now...if you'd said most of the movie of Beauty and the Beast with the dancing teapots and cups, you would've been closer to what I was going for. ;-)


OR, if you had mentioned Bugs Bunny, it would've been closer to what I meant. ;-)

We have our cat toys named and they are all male ("Honey, where did you put Mr. Wormy?" lol). I talk to my car sometimes. If I'm in a store and see a stuffed animal that fell off his shelf, I have to put him (or her) back up there.

[ocnjgirl]

Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801

Um, yes, I DO talk to trees. I have certain ones for which I have strong feelings.

I had a tree that I used as my therapist when I was little (ages 6 to maybe 9 or 10), way before I even knew what therapy is. It was in our front yard, and when I was upset I'd climb it and sit in a "Y" shaped branch seat sometimes for over an hour and tell it what was wrong, and it would help me think of a solution or just make me feel better. The tree would develop new little buds along the trunk in spring which in my mind were "eyes". In my mind the tree got more eyes in exchange for helping me, so it could see more of the world.

[TabulaRasa]

I've tried on a name and identity for my car, but it's never really stuck.