If you had to assign gender roles to flatware...

braveangel2

Spurred by a discussion with my three-year-old daughter...what gender role would you give the spoon? How about the fork?

BONUS: knife 

braveangel2

She decided that the spoon was the daddy and the fork was the mommy. I'm not sure I could decide, but she played them so convincingly, that I think of it that way now.

Maddimom

I say the knife is the father, fork mother and spoon is a child (girl or boy)

pinktulips

Knife - Daddy (Male)

Fork - Mommy (Female)

Spoon - Child (Male)

 

 

LauraLynneC

fork is daddy - spoon is mommy - knife is the sexy pool boy.  Apparently fork and spoon have no children. 

 

pinktulips

I was curious, so I looked up the words in German (nouns all have a gender assigned to them in the language - der, die, or das) and...

Spoon - Male

Fork - Female

Knife - Neutral

Seattle_JiLLn

French has spoon and fork female and knife male.

JRS72206

Fork: Dad

Spoon: Mom 

Spork: Child 

 

Brilliant. 

blueLu25

haha! Perfect.

WatchPot

Spoon=female. Fork =male. No sure why maybe because I associate spoo s with curves?   

WatchPot

JRS72206:

Fork: Dad

Spoon: Mom 

Spork: Child 

 

Brilliant. 

I change my answer to this! 

braveangel2

LauraLynneC:

fork is daddy - spoon is mommy - knife is the sexy pool boy.  Apparently fork and spoon have no children. 

 

Hahahahaha That reminds me of Legally Blonde - "I just liked to watch him clean the filter"

CinemaGoddess

Fork and knife are male because they're for insertion. 

I'm going to say the spoon is female just for funsies. 

This logic is flawed because the spoon can be for insertion, too. 

Oh well. 

keri1013

JRS72206:

Fork: Dad

Spoon: Mom 

Spork: Child 

 

Brilliant. 

Yes!

braveangel2

I love that you looked this up, Alicia!

And gender neutral knife makes sense. I mean, it's a knife that can take a boy to a girl or a girl to a boy.

I'm thinking girls like to spoon while guys like to fork, so that's my answer. Justine wins though.

McJen715

WatchPot:

Spoon=female. Fork =male. No sure why maybe because I associate spoo s with curves?

I was thinking the same logic for the spoon being female. The forks prongs make me think male.