NAMING YOUR BODY PARTS

An (overly long) article on the website OKWhatever.org relates the story of a Los Angeles-based singer and tattoo artist named Lynn Aquaheart who named her butt. She said she always felt it was too big and always getting in the way, making her feel awkward and leading her to wear loose, formless clothing. The final straw came one day when she knocked a stack of books off a table with her behind. She said, out of total frustration, she named her butt ‘Christine.’ She started blaming ‘Christine’ for all the things wrong with her life. Then, one day at a coffee shop, she bent down to plug in the charger for her laptop computer when she accidentally bumped her coffee with her butt, spilling it everywhere. Blaming Christine for the accident out loud, a woman told her, “Honey, you be good to Christine. She carries you through your whole life. She’s there for you to sit on when you need to rest. It’s no sin for her to take up space.” From that point on, says Aquaheart, she improved her relationship with her butt, started dressing better and feeling more confident. “I had become friends with Christine,” she explained.
– It should come as no surprise that people name their parts. Some women give their breasts names, while as many as 7 out of 10 men are said to have named their penises. The reason why, says University of North Carolina psychology professor Kurt Gray, is that we’re trying to exert control over them. Taking the focus away from ourselves and placing it on something external also helps us shirk responsibility for our behaviors, enabling us to distance ourselves from the very thing that bothers us.
(full article here: https://www.okwhatever.org/topics/selfie/naming-body-parts?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark)
* I do that all the time. When I knock something over, I blame some other woman’s butt.
* This sounds like it’s some kind of weird short story contest for psychology majors.
* Naming your body parts and referring to them in the third person. That’s just one step away from having an imaginary friend.
* I suppose it’s wrong to admit I call my junk Bert & Ernie, and Big Bird.
PHONE TOPIC: Have you named a body part?