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Totally agree with your "other side of the coin" assessment that this gendering of everyday objects could diminish the importance of gender overall. To my orig
by kaycebasques 5y ago
Totally agree with your "other side of the coin" assessment that this gendering of everyday objects could diminish the importance of gender overall.
To my original point, one of the most interesting examples that I can think of is how you gender groups of humans in Spanish or Portuguese. If I understand correctly, no matter the distribution of the group, the group becomes masculine once there is one man in it. It could be 999 females and 1 male and the proper way to label it is masculine.
- mastazi 5y agoYes the group becomes masculine no matter the distribution, this is also the case in Italian. If I remember this correctly, this is because the old Latin neutral gender, in those modern languages, has been assimilated into the masculine gender. (If you study Latin you might notice that in many cases the neutral terminations are more similar to the masculine ones so, in a way, it makes sense that at some point the line started to blur I guess).