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What gender do you think X items are?

Postby Makko Oko » Tue Nov 26, 2024 7:03 pm

So this is a very, generally speaking open thread. I had the world's dumbest question. Back away now if you don't want to catch it, but it is that time of year so y'know. Annnnnnnnyways, I was wondering, if the items we come to use every day, such as chargers, water, xboxes, etc. were real, what would their genders be? What would their personalities be? Now in this scenario, let's pretend that items can only be one gender, save for manufacturing revisions. I will start:

I think that paper is male, because it is so old, and has never really gone through much change, that it must be a male! Paper is likely to be very stern, have kind of like a blank expression of "You really have to write on me?" and then being hurt whenever you do write on them. What do you all think?
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Postby South Poopistan » Tue Nov 26, 2024 7:08 pm

This in the wake of the death of the "how many genders" thread is diabolical.

On another note, I agree with paper being male. It just seems relatively fitting to the personality I think a paper sheet would have.

I can't think of any other objects right now that would have a definable gender, but I probably will later lol

Ooh, actually, I think a coin would probably be male. Currency goes through the ringer and I think it would """toughen up""" and become super """masculine""" (that kinda hurt to type) over its time in circulation.
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Postby The Kingdom of Eastern Prussia » Tue Nov 26, 2024 7:10 pm

Later... Most definitely a male

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Postby Trump Almighty » Tue Nov 26, 2024 7:14 pm

Lamps are female. “Lampara”

If you need a guide as to how objects are gendered, the use of a Romance lexicon is quite useful (grammatical gender)

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Postby Fractalnavel » Tue Nov 26, 2024 7:15 pm

Just look up Grammatical gender. That's it.

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Postby Kerwa » Tue Nov 26, 2024 7:34 pm

Going by my partially remembered o’level German, water and paper are neuter. Tables are male, I think. It was a long time ago. Xbox would be a loan word, so don’t know, I’d guess neuter.

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Postby Liberal Malaysia » Tue Nov 26, 2024 7:42 pm

Most inanimate objects "feel" male to me. Yes, even Barbie dolls when you ignore the feminine appearance and focus on the material alone.
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Postby Almighty Biden » Tue Nov 26, 2024 8:57 pm

After a quick Google search I have learned that paper is not masculine, but rather neuter. Es ist das Papier, der Papier nicht. Does this make sense?
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Postby Major-Tom » Tue Nov 26, 2024 9:06 pm

Another gender thread. God damn.

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Postby Grandocantorica » Tue Nov 26, 2024 9:08 pm

Guns are male. Most guns.
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Postby Floofybit » Tue Nov 26, 2024 9:09 pm

This would be a good F7 game
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Postby Grandocantorica » Tue Nov 26, 2024 9:09 pm

Floofybit wrote:This would be a good F7 game

Fr I agree.
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Postby Archipel Sempi » Tue Nov 26, 2024 9:11 pm

Grammatical gender. Just use grammatical gender.
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Postby Isla Byron » Tue Nov 26, 2024 9:14 pm

Grandocantorica wrote:Guns are male. Most guns.

im in the party of neutering everything like we're an animal rescue shelter but i think it's fun to rate guns on the femme-butch scale. you guys might be familiar with the image but the M60, AK, PKM, etc. are like butch or stone butch, whereas more twinky weapons like those western PDWs for specslop operations are more femme. i need a beautiful spec ops femme that i can provide enfilading fire support to. im sorry im speaking in undecipherable dykespeak but you'll get the hang of it.

Floofybit wrote:This would be a good F7 game

agreed.
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Postby Kasa Tkoth Sphere » Tue Nov 26, 2024 9:14 pm

The X items are male, but Dire Hit is nonbinary and Guard Spec. is definitely a girl.

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Postby Eahland » Tue Nov 26, 2024 9:27 pm

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Postby Infected Mushroom » Tue Nov 26, 2024 11:06 pm

Items don’t need genders. There’s no element of sexuality or reproduction. It makes no sense.

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Postby Hirota » Wed Nov 27, 2024 1:38 am

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Postby Emotional Support Crocodile » Wed Nov 27, 2024 1:50 am

For me the interest in this kind of thing would be about the personality of smart gadgets. Were Siri and Alexa female because we want to have female assistants?

I would have thought you would allow the user to choose... but then this is Google and Microsoft who prefer forcible herding of consumers.
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Postby The Archregimancy » Wed Nov 27, 2024 3:01 am

Makko Oko wrote:So this is a very, generally speaking open thread. I had the world's dumbest question. Back away now if you don't want to catch it, but it is that time of year so y'know. Annnnnnnnyways, I was wondering, if the items we come to use every day, such as chargers, water, xboxes, etc. were real, what would their genders be?


Whatever grammatical gender they're assigned in your native/first language.

For example, for French and Spanish* speakers, water is feminine. In Arabic, water is masculine. In German, it's neuter.




*yes, I know it's 'el agua'; but that's to stop two consecutive 'a' vowels in 'la agua'. That agua is feminine is demonstrated by it taking feminine forms of adjectives, so 'el agua fria'. See also 'soul', or 'el alma'.

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Postby Camtropia » Wed Nov 27, 2024 3:06 am

Surely this thread will be a place of civilised discussion and won't descend into madness like the last thread with "gender" in the title...

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Postby Page » Wed Nov 27, 2024 3:16 am

It seems biologically intuitive that chargers are male and the devices they go into are female.
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Postby Aber Antarctica » Wed Nov 27, 2024 3:20 am

Infected Mushroom wrote:Items don’t need genders. There’s no element of sexuality or reproduction. It makes no sense.


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Postby Page » Wed Nov 27, 2024 3:21 am

Aber Antarctica wrote:
Infected Mushroom wrote:Items don’t need genders. There’s no element of sexuality or reproduction. It makes no sense.


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Bojack Horseman would have something to say about that.
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Postby Emotional Support Crocodile » Wed Nov 27, 2024 3:25 am

Page wrote:It seems biologically intuitive that chargers are male and the devices they go into are female.


My intuition says toasters are male,
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