boats?

boats are female

wut?

that is personification

most things in the spanish language have genders

so?

ahh

not all languages have gendered nouns

@Arch-Fiend but if gender =/= sex, then a boat does not have a gender, it has a sex

gender doesent equel sex

the boat has no sexual characteristics, sorry

because there is only male gender, female gender, and neutral gendered words in languages

you can't have it both ways

thats because gender doesent discribe sexual characteristics

so gender could only be binary if that is the point you tried to make

well no physical ones

gender only defines social and psychological sexual characteristics

which would mean it defines nothing

boats don't have any

which is why i dont like the word

boats are called she

do something about it

btw, afaik boat is male in spanish

barco

thats fine, now its male

or bote

la lancha is female

doesent make gender any more useful a way to define sex

now that inanimate objects have genders

you basically destroyed your own argument though, genders in languages are binary

i never said genders wernt binary

there's male, female and neutral

i said i dont care about them

and that it doesent define sex

you were arguing "gender =/= sex"

sex doesent define bianary, sex that we know of has a bianary

you lost me, idk what you meant

what you said before the last thing i said only makes sense with the thing you said before that if your defining bianary as sex

language has masculine, feminine, and neutral. If you want to call that arbitrary distinctions gender, then fine. But that is a random ass thing to call gender

also probably not appropriate because i believe it already has a name

continuing with this thread of discussion.. so should languages invent 35 new ways to gender nouns?