• @[email protected]
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    41 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.

      • @grue
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        1 year ago

        J’adore [la] lampe.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 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.

    • @Hazdaz
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      01 year ago

      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.

        • @Hazdaz
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          11 year ago

          She gave me permission.