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Calling BJDs "It"

Jul 13, 2010

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    1. My girls are female so I always use feminine pronouns when I refer to either of them. I couldn't care less if my non-BJD friends think it's weird.
       
      #301 MissAniThrope, Nov 21, 2013
    2. while i call them by their character gender, i don't care if people call them IT.
      i tend to call babies IT so i can't get mad if people call my dolls that lol.
       
      #302 siead_lietrathua, Dec 16, 2013
    3. it bothers me when dolls get called "it". i feel that they all have strong personalities and it doesn't sit right with me to call them anything but he or she. even the floating head it have i refer to as she or her.
       
      #303 moondust07x, Dec 16, 2013
    4. All my dolls are fantasy creatures (even if some of them look completely or almost human) and most of them don't even have a clear sex, much less clear gender. So, I call them "it". I don't really care if someone refers to them as "she" or "he" because it's easy to think Susu, for example, is female, because she looks very feminine.

      edit: this might also be about finnish language. We generally refer to other people, and animals, as "it". We don't have "he" or "she" we just have a non-gender-specific word for the third person.

      I don't have any kind of problems with the word "it" even with human dolls. But I don't really talk about dolls in english so it might be that I would use she or he more in english... For example, in finnish I call my dog "it" but in english I say "she". Dunno why.
       
      #304 Nameless, Jan 1, 2014
    5. I definitely think dolls are inanimate objects, without any personality of their own other than what we project on them. Yet I always refer to them as "he" or "she." I do that with many inanimate objects that clearly represent a male or a female. For example, I have a lithograph on my bedroom wall of a female ballet dancer, and this is a "she" to me; for example, "I want to move her over to that wall." Just a funny habit of mine, I guess.
       
      #305 BellaRose, Jan 1, 2014
    6. I'm calling BJD dolls 'he' or 'she' because I see everyone here do it, and I'm afraid some people might be insulted if I refer to their doll as 'it'.
       
      #306 Loreley, Jan 1, 2014
    7. I agree with most people; based off the character a doll possesses I call it "he" or "she" accordingly. In the case of genderless bodies I guess "it" would have to work, eh? I don't care what other people call their or someone else's dolls really, it's simply a personal preference.
       
      #307 AdorationFairy, Jan 2, 2014
    8. One of my wishlist dolls is going to be modded to be gender-neutral, but considering I dislike the gender-neutral pronouns I would probably end up calling them 'it', even despite how not-personal it sounds.
       
      #308 MissAniThrope, Jan 2, 2014
    9. Dolls have specific genders so it would just feel weird to me to call them "it".
      I always refer to my dolls by their gender or their names.
       
      #309 Lilari, Jan 2, 2014
    10. I agree with this too.
       
      #310 PALMY, Mar 29, 2014
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