Message from @Grenade123
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you can take any existing thing that says gender and you could replace it with sex
as that is how it was used
you cant say "this word means this word but only sometimes"
you can say those applications of the word sex seem silly or random, and i would agree
that doesn't change the fact that is how it was used
Besides, why not?
there is no "but only sometimes"
what sex is a boat?
any application of sex and gender is/was interchangeable
yes
boat is an it
boat is a she, a female pronoun
please show me the dick or boobs on a boat
not in all languages
how do boats fuck?
feminine article
show me what about the boat makes it feminine?
rule34 applies
you'd have ask the people who made up language
not a god damn thing about a boat makes it feminine, its almost like gender isint the same god damn thing as sex
if you want a guess on boat in particular, it was because the sailors on it build the same kind of connection with it as they did with their wives, so the boat became a sort of replacement for the females of their lives, given that it used to be all men and nothing but the men.
the moment sex discribed sexual characteristics or an action sex no longer means gender
they personified the boat
here, have a pic of Titanic
humans are weird
i like the starberd side on that chick
funny stuff aside
some lanmguages have gendered words
others don't
what's your point on the boats?
so they dont have sexed words
so gender doesent mean sex
they have gendered words, but only male, female and neutral
so they dont have sexed words
gendered words are "sexed" words
*i made mistakes ask my gf for linguistics questions, she is now flooding my pms with links because she has a linguistics fetish*
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because sex discribes physical characteristics of living things that reproduce sexually
not necessarily