Nang Juaning, she is our only neighbor back in the nineties, when our family secedes living with my grandparents to start a new home. She is Litang, my cousin’s classmate in the law school. Her is Bebing, the now gray-haired neighbor who never expected to settle down not until she’s in her mid 30s. And still many others.
These names are also used to name abnormal weather conditions. Female names in general. They are widely used by our authorities to describe storms and typhoons.
But why female names?
This question remained unanswered until today. I couldn’t find a valid and concrete explanation why our storms and typhoon have feminine names. I came across with an opinion which explains it. Storms are unpredictable, they change directions rapidly. He said females behave the same way too. They are fickle-minded. They change decisions quickly. She says yes now but after a few minutes she says no.
Maybe the writer, I could not exactly remember his name, have a point. We cannot predict how it behaves.
Typhoons are strong. Once it hits the ground, devastation occurs. Houses unroofed. Trees and plants bowed down to the ground. It has power and strength.
When we speak of physical strength, men are stronger than women. Why isn’t it named on the male specie, on that analogy?
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