Hello everyone
Today in a trance, my playstation was lagging to load the store app which it always has, and not even paying attention I half intentively said "come on you got it girl". Among friends I have caught myself like on party with NFS Heat calling cars "her" which is far much more common. Phrases like "she purs" referring to the cars engine. Or "she can do it" determining if a car can hit the high speed needed for a speed trap.
Car Naming And Giving Human Qualities to inanimate thingsIt turns out that I went a good chunk of my life believing this was only a guy thing? Stereotypical for sure but when I was around car guys it was always "big betty" to refer to a cadillac. Or 'she's good on gas" in terms of giving a seemingly hunk of metal a girl pronoun which to me used to be odd but I instantly just fell into this maybe like how I was raised? For me it isn't like thinking that the actual car or playstation has any type of human emotion or can hear me but I feel like it's more like animorophasizing the qualities of necessity some feel for their SO or maybe like more giving human traits because as humans we love humans so it falls naturally? Coming through for us I guess most see them qualities. For me I say it blindly and never put much into why "she" and not "he". But recently my SO said she will name her first car Lucy and referred to her playstation as "he". So I wonder why cars are girls even for her? Although it shows this type of thing is pretty common place. Not everyone names their car. But a lot do. Many girls in my city even put mustaches and eye lashes on car to give it human traits.
I have never gone as far as naming a console but if I did name my PS4 I guess it's name would be Lauryn with a Y. My TV would definitely be a Carlos.
The reason this occurs is because as adults we long for the feelings that have since passed, that ball hitting bricks at reccess? You rounded the diamond but didn't realize you were the diamond. Lost potential as the mundane confides of 9 to 5 surround you, you miss the simple times of like a box weave apple pie, the hug of our mother the same way full grown cats curl in the box longing for the protective embrace of a mother cat it was stripped of. It is both the beggining and end. A mere microcosm of what defines us within.
Do you name your consoles? If you had to name your console what would it be?
Thanks for sharing