Talking of ships, how the fuck is a ship feminine? In a grammatical sense, it has a feminine genus. Other languages, like French or Dutch or German, randomly apply a grammatical gender (genus) to any noun. Some languages have grammatical genders to differentiate between wild and domesticated animals, or between tools and other inanimate objects or w/e.
Language has a relation to gender that's mainly arbitrary. It's all made up at the end of the day. I go by she / her pronouns because i'm a woman and she / her is the common grammatical signifier for that and i like being recognized and validated in my womanhood, but other women just go by they / them instead, just look at Judith Butler. I'd fucking murder you for they / theming me, but for them, it's a different matter, they just have a different relation to their womanhood that's better described in its complexities by they / them, so that's what they go with.
Talking of ships, how the fuck is a ship feminine? In a grammatical sense, it has a feminine genus. Other languages, like French or Dutch or German, randomly apply a grammatical gender (genus) to any noun. Some languages have grammatical genders to differentiate between wild and domesticated animals, or between tools and other inanimate objects or w/e.
Language has a relation to gender that's mainly arbitrary. It's all made up at the end of the day. I go by she / her pronouns because i'm a woman and she / her is the common grammatical signifier for that and i like being recognized and validated in my womanhood, but other women just go by they / them instead, just look at Judith Butler. I'd fucking murder you for they / theming me, but for them, it's a different matter, they just have a different relation to their womanhood that's better described in its complexities by they / them, so that's what they go with.
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