Gender Study: Do you consider Spooking to be Masculine or Feminine
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Gender Study: Do you consider Spooking to be Masculine or Feminine
I'm heckin' curious because I just realized that I've always seen spooking as feminine and I wanna know what everyone else thinks!!
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seems like a unisex concept to me
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displaying fear is oft considered a feminine concept whereas instilling it is considered masculine
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more important: while trying to dig up one of such commercials, i came across this
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Re: Gender Study: Do you consider Spooking to be Masculine or Feminine
That's so weird, I've always seen it as the opposite. Like, when someone says "ghost" I assume "she" and the same with like, eldritch forces and other high-spook beings.
Now I'm wondering how I got that idea in the first place since, as you say, it really seems like society thinks the opposite.
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Re: Gender Study: Do you consider Spooking to be Masculine or Feminine
Ghosts in Japanese horror tend to be female more than male, I think. It probably varies all over the world.
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it could be as simple as a linguistic connection because ghost and girl start with the same letter, and there are apparently times when our brains decide to make loose associations based on words/letters alone. for instance i subconsciously consider K to be a feminine letter for some reason or another
it could also be as complex as an imprinted association brought about by familiarity with feminine ghost(s) of some kind, perhaps from a show or movie you saw at a young age
disclaimer i am not a psychologist so i dunno lol
it could also be as complex as an imprinted association brought about by familiarity with feminine ghost(s) of some kind, perhaps from a show or movie you saw at a young age
disclaimer i am not a psychologist so i dunno lol
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Oh, I think you solved it. My like, entire 3rd grade life during recess was about Bloody Mary, the bathroom ghost. My friend and I made up some deep lore regarding her and I bet that's where it comes from, and now I always get the warm fuzzies whenever someone mentions spooky ghosts because it reminds me of those carefree times. At least, that makes sense to me.
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it's weird how one man's quest to get his rocks off resulted in a ghost summoning ritual and a cocktail
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I assume all ghosts are dudes, because I punch them.
There was a link here, it's dead now and I'm sad.
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