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How do you refer to your knives when speaking about them? He, she, or neither? I've seen some refer to their knives with certain genders, just wondering if anyone else does this.

I consider my inanimate objects just that...unless they cut me...then a few gender related expletives may be uttered. :o

Its bad enough that some of us sleep with our knives, giving it a gender seems a little much. That being said my CF millie is a her and my Native is a him

For me "Gender Neutral" . Like mentioned.........."Bad Enough I Sleep With One (well lay in bed with one anyway). Cool Thread though, it ought to be interesting what folks say :) . Take Good Care.

God Bless :)


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Ooh. I generally despise adding a gender to knives. Yeah, "Mrs. Knife" really wants to be driven headfirst into the ground to cut roots or smashed edge-first into a log to make firewood or dig mud from the soles of sneakers. Maybe the guys who habitually do that do so because women are the only people doing actual work in their houses.

I do refer to knives as children in unisex terms, though. Little bubby, baby bubby, and chubby bubster have all made life easier and more colorful.

Spyderco: Maker of high-performance bubbies.

Cars and motorcyles are female, but beyond that I don't attach gender to my toys.

Only 4 people voted for "What kind of stupid question is this?"

I'm surprised, I expected a lot more than that

my knives are hermaphrodites! :D

Male definately.... :D

Must admit: funny question though :p

male for me too because in french words have gender and knife is male gender, "un couteau"..

Chubby Bubster? roflmao

:spyder: How can something as phallic and penetrative as a knife be anything but masculine? :spyder:

How can anything as graceful and delicate as a knife be anything but feminine?

I took the stupid one, since I actualy never considered them either. Now I will probably obsess over it and lose my mind, Thanx :p

thombrogan wrote:How can anything as graceful and delicate as a knife be anything but feminine?

Delicate? This is the Spyderco forum not the ****** forum. :p

Many languages assing gender to their nouns...I wonder what the male/female breakdown for the word knife would be amongst the world's languages? I agree that if gender was to be assigned it would be masculine.

So far we have:
French: M

If my memory of high school Spanish is accurate (highly unlikely) than in Spanish it is also masculine.

El cuchillo.

Knife is masculine, but sword (la espada) is feminine, I would have expected the other way around.

Neutral for me, it's an object after all - even if I call it "My Preciousss..."

[quote="smcfalls13"]Only 4 people voted for "What kind of stupid question is this?"

I'm surprised, I expected a lot more than that ]

Alohahahahaha Scott!

Funny one...it depends on the knife for me. :o I mean, just look at the curves on the Persian and Adventura... :p

Not sure about the SF though...it's been refered to as a "biscuit" as well as a lil' Monster! :rolleyes:

God bless Knifebrother :cool:

More She's than He's, but it depends on the model.

I like my knives a lot, but I am not so far as to give them names or make love to them :D ....so I would have to go with the last on the list.