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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

J'adore [la] lampe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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.

[–] FracturedEel 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In Italian too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No! Stop humping your side table.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

She gave me permission.