• BluesF@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    It’s not a person, doesn’t have any sort of social characteristics, so it doesn’t have a gender any more than a lamp with a very convincing fake beard.

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      1 year ago

      Really depends on your language. In french lamps are females for example.

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        1 year ago

        Lamps aren’t female in French, they’re feminine but this is purely grammatical and doesn’t imply any social gender. It’s just part of the word - see “fleuve” and “rivière”, both words meaning river, one masculine one feminine.

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      so it doesn’t have a gender any more than a lamp with a very convincing fake beard.

      Says you! My side table goes by the pronouns of she/her.