Friday: Don't Have Friggatriskaidekaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th)
In honour of Friday the 13th, let's talk about something scary: phobias. Go here and choose five phobias.
List the five phobias you chose, along with an explanation of why you chose them.
1. pyrophobia: fear of fire. Yeah, that’s me, I admit it. I hate any fire that’s bigger than a candle. I don’t like fireplaces and I try not to work on any play that has pyrotechnics. Sometimes I even wince at fictional fires. But when you feel like you’re responsible for a building burning down. . .
2. cibophobia/sitophobia: fear of food. That has to be the suckiest fear ever. How the hell do you feed yourself? Or can it apply only to specific forms of food? (Heh – just pictured a kid pretending he has a phobia of spinach.)
3. homophobia: fear of homosexuals. I wonder what happens if somebody like that encounters somebody like me. Would such a phobia apply to bisexuals too? Or do we get our own phobia? Hmm.
4. zelotypophobia: fear of jealousy. Wait, does that even work? Do you fear becoming jealous? People being jealous of you? The word “jealous?” Phobias are weird.
5. pinaciphobia/katastichophobia: fear of lists. Had to pick this one because of the prompt. I gotta say, though, those are some epically complicated words for such a simple fear. How the hell do these phobias get their names? (Then again, I sort of looked that up for my title -- the "frigga" in that overcomplicated phobia comes from Norse mythology. Frigga was the goddess of Friday, apparently.)
List the five phobias you chose, along with an explanation of why you chose them.
1. pyrophobia: fear of fire. Yeah, that’s me, I admit it. I hate any fire that’s bigger than a candle. I don’t like fireplaces and I try not to work on any play that has pyrotechnics. Sometimes I even wince at fictional fires. But when you feel like you’re responsible for a building burning down. . .
2. cibophobia/sitophobia: fear of food. That has to be the suckiest fear ever. How the hell do you feed yourself? Or can it apply only to specific forms of food? (Heh – just pictured a kid pretending he has a phobia of spinach.)
3. homophobia: fear of homosexuals. I wonder what happens if somebody like that encounters somebody like me. Would such a phobia apply to bisexuals too? Or do we get our own phobia? Hmm.
4. zelotypophobia: fear of jealousy. Wait, does that even work? Do you fear becoming jealous? People being jealous of you? The word “jealous?” Phobias are weird.
5. pinaciphobia/katastichophobia: fear of lists. Had to pick this one because of the prompt. I gotta say, though, those are some epically complicated words for such a simple fear. How the hell do these phobias get their names? (Then again, I sort of looked that up for my title -- the "frigga" in that overcomplicated phobia comes from Norse mythology. Frigga was the goddess of Friday, apparently.)