Just for Fun: Do Basses/Brands have a Gender?

[BassBrass]

A bass with balls = male
A bass sans balls = female

Did you know that as people age women overtake men in testosterone production and keep on working that farm or family dynasty or business empire long after the male of the species is a discarded husk. The early telecaster Fender is louder today than the day it was made. It started out male but switched to female.

 

[dbbltime]

Did you know that as people age women overtake men in testosterone production and keep on working that farm or family dynasty or business empire long after the male of the species is a discarded husk. The early telecaster Fender is louder today that the day it was made. It started out male but switched to female.

Interesting, but age it won't affect the balls of a bass to any great degree. IMO

 

[BassBrass]

They are all mixed, as inanimate objects they have to be. The bridge is male, the strings are female, the horns are either but the space up the neck is female and playing down the neck is male. The jack is obviously female. The tuners are female. The body is usually male and the neck is usually female but shape can modify that. Straight lines and sharp points are male and curves are female, lighter colors are female. I just got a Sterling/stingray thing, black and blond classic, and it seems to be a strong-female body shape even though black, actually females can be plenty destructive angry and dangerous in nature. A female bear will kill you pretty quick as will a hurricane or an angry wife. Ask Lee Morgan

 

[Clark Dark]

No questions about this one:

 

[InhumanResource]

"Look you don't have the weak womanly fingers of a guitar princess. You, my friend, have the muscular stumps of a bass man!"

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This right here offsets the premise of the thread in the best way. I will now call my fingers muscular stumps, even though they're kinda princessy.

 

[rtav]

My basses are all feminine.

 

[elgranluis]

Exactly so. And sometimes, it doesn't make much sense, either. If my memory serves, in the German language, potatoes are feminine (Die kartoffel), while girls have no gender (Das Madchen)...

Das= female

 

[ogreboy88]

There's a joke in here about my bass having a strap on it, but I'll leave it to someone else to work out the details.

 

[BigDrew]

I feel like Reverends are female for some reason. More curves?

 

[GBBSbassist]

I've never been one of those people that give names to their possessions. Always seemed weird to me.

 

[okcrum]

One of my basses identifies as a fish.

 

[Sixgunn]

Daisy rock surprises everybody by identifying as a boy

Bambi is a boy and also a very popular stripper name

 

[Fxpmusic]

Any owner of a Warwick corvette knows it is an intimidating dude...

 

[Sixgunn]

I've never been one of those people that give names to their possessions. Always seemed weird to me.

^^^^This +1,000,000^^^^

 

[Sixgunn]

Stupid thread. You really need another hobby.

Someone show this man the door.

 

[Revolver]

Das= female

Nein (no).

"Das" is neutral, "Die" is feminine and "Der" is masculine.

 

[dave64o]

Honestly, it never occurred to me. I don't recall ever referring to my basses as a "he" or a "she". "It" always seemed to do the job nicely.

YMMV, of course.

 

[five7]

I had a MM sterling 5 maple fb, white with tort pg. Named it Chelle after my wife, a blond who likes to wear red. My honeyburst sterling HS is named honey bunny. My stealth bongo 5 is named blackie after one of my childhood friends. Only ones I have named of the 50 I have owned.

 

[Nev375]

This 1/4" instrument cable is male.

That pretty much guarantees your instrument is female unless you have done some sort of weird electrical surgery on the output jack.

Now, if your bass does not identify as female, that's a whole other subject as far as I'm concerned. And since identity politics is not an acceptable subject in on these forums, I'm not going there.

 

[GIBrat51]

Das= female

Not according to Wikipedia...