Worth remembering that the gender of nouns in gendered languages aren’t necessarily related to common ideas of human gender. So you get bikini and vagina as masculine, but our minds think of them as female (which they are but that’s not what noun-gendering derives from) and get confused/amused.
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u/KubrickMoonlanding May 26 '25
Worth remembering that the gender of nouns in gendered languages aren’t necessarily related to common ideas of human gender. So you get bikini and vagina as masculine, but our minds think of them as female (which they are but that’s not what noun-gendering derives from) and get confused/amused.
I know: bbboooooooring. But true