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Offline upstatenybowyer

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Gender Identity
« on: March 25, 2018, 06:09:50 pm »
I've always thought of bows as female and arrows as male.

Do you folks think the same? Or perhaps you don't think of bows and arrows as having gender at all? I know this is kind of a weird topic, but I'm curious. I can't help it!  O:)
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Offline Parnell

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Re: Gender Identity
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2018, 06:16:40 pm »
I’ll refer to a bow as she without really considering it.  Never really thought about the arrows, but I bet traditionally most would agree.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Gender Identity
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2018, 06:22:40 pm »
I agree with Steve.
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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: Gender Identity
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2018, 06:51:10 pm »
Back when I named my bows they all had masculine names like Thor, Brutus, Thumper (not the rabbit) and such. I named one "goof-up" one time because I made so many mistakes when I made it. Never give a bow a disrespectful name, it will get even.

For me arrows are just arrows, not masculine or feminine.

I saw a bow in a magazine where a guy had printed its name in big letters all the way up the bows limbs, "Killer-Driller", I suspect the bow had put a lot of game on the ground for him.
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Offline upstatenybowyer

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Re: Gender Identity
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2018, 07:05:30 pm »
lol Eric.  ;D
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Offline DC

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Re: Gender Identity
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2018, 07:26:43 pm »
It for both :)
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Gender Identity
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2018, 08:09:50 pm »
I think in this day and age you are supposed to let the bow and arrows decide for themselves which gender they associate with  ::)
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Offline Morgan

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Re: Gender Identity
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2018, 11:34:47 pm »
Quote from: osage outlaw on March 25, 2018, 08:09:50 pm
I think in this day and age you are supposed to let the bow and arrows decide for themselves which gender they associate with  ::)
Lmao!  ;D ;D ;D
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Offline bjrogg

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Re: Gender Identity
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2018, 05:27:42 am »
I've almost always thought of my bows as ladies. I guess it's all the curves and maybe like Clint once told me I spend to much time in a tractor.lol. Sure glad they don't need to use the restroom. Never really thought about the arrows.
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Offline upstatenybowyer

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Re: Gender Identity
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2018, 06:03:11 am »
Quote from: osage outlaw on March 25, 2018, 08:09:50 pm
I think in this day and age you are supposed to let the bow and arrows decide for themselves which gender they associate with  ::)

 ;D ;D
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Offline Pappy

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Re: Gender Identity
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2018, 07:15:54 am »
Yep , usually think of my bows as girls even though if I name them it usually don't reflect that. Never really thought about the arrows although I did have one I called Elvis, when I finely lost it I said " Elvis has left the building "  ;) :) Also I can see where this topic can go south quickly.  ;) :D :D
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Offline BowEd

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Re: Gender Identity
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2018, 07:30:44 am »
Pappy....Speaking from experience???Ha Ha Ha.Like the Elvis/arrow scenario though....lol.
That's one thing nowadays though people don't name their bows any more like I've seen.Although I've seen BJ do it lately.I'm guilty of not doing it too.
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Offline bjrogg

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Re: Gender Identity
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2018, 07:39:55 am »
I've named most of the bows I made. Like Pappy I think of them as ladies but I don't necessarily reflex that in the name. Might get the wife upset if I did and I can't name em al Susie.lol
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Gender Identity
« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2018, 08:33:42 am »
Bows, fast cars, cool boats and the like are all "she's".
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Gender Identity
« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2018, 12:02:22 pm »
Quote from: PEARL DRUMS/PEARLY/PD/DRUMS on March 26, 2018, 08:33:42 am
Bows, fast cars, cool boats and the like are all "she's".

And so are flintlocks.  My sweet little .36 flinter is long, lean, and just a hit of outgrowing her tomboyish days for being a fine young lady...She's "Perty Girl".  But my early Lancaster has filled out those curves...I like big butts and I cannot lie.
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