All Guitars Are Female., my philosophy Options

[Spiderusalem]

No dirty minds allowed here, but yeah thats the way I think of them. Guitars are female, and the thing they give birth to is our signal. It escapes their mahogony womb and grows up through cables and distortions, until it can come out and become what we have come to know as "our tone". Its a beautiful process.

We love them for their beauty, their endearing flaws, their voice, and they way they feel. Think about it.

So a word to you gentlemen. Treat your ladies right



lol sorry I'm being weird again.

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This post has been edited by Spiderusalem: Oct 31 2007, 04:04 AM

[Saoirse O'Shea]

But seriously...why do people refer to stuff in the feminine?

Just to try to answer this at a theoretical level - albeit I'm going to broadbrush and simplify this to keep it very short. We are, to paraphrase Helene Cixous, born in to language, it helps define and helps delimit us. It's a form of objectification of 'the other' (l'autre as the French term it - in this case the female as 'the other' that is symbolically crossed-out).

Objectification connotes ownership and control and also means that the person who objectifies 'the other' is empowered, whilst 'the other' becomes (or is repeatedly made) less human. It in itself rests on an (ab)use or (mis-)exercise of power that helps maintain - and is itself maintained by - an asymmetric society. Now whilst some may argue that 'the other' may use the same language misses the asymmetric power relationship here: there is no level playing field. The first is an abusive exercise of the dominant, the second an attempt at a recuperation of language and subject status and/or a resistance to the near reification by 'the other'. This recuperation and/or resistance occurs because language and meaning as praxis are not fixed and hence there cannot be total domination. cf Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit' and pretty much all of 20thC Continental Philosophy's interpretations and reactions to that work.

At a theoretical level apart from Cixous (and Cixous with Christine Clement - 'La Jeune Fille') a few others worth looking at are: Julia Kristeva (particularly 'Revolution in Poetic Language'), Luce Irigaray ('This sex which is not one'), Michel Foucault ('Discipline and Punish'), Jacques Derrida ('Writing and Difference') and Judith Butler ('Bodies that Matter').

Cheers,
Tony



ps - apologies Kris and others - just thought that Rok's Q was worth an answer

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