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ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• matelt@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Buuuut cars are a men thing aren’t they? And yet it’s la voiture… Curious…

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  • BlueLineBae@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    See… You have to get into the mind of a straight man from the 1950s and ask yourself one of 2 questions: Is this a woman’s thing? Or would I fuck this thing? Cars are considered “beautiful” and “sexy” and therefore fuckable by a man. I hope this has been a good lesson in outrageous sexism.

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    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And yet ‘ship’ is oddly masculine in French, despite even in genderless English being referred to by sailors throughout history as ‘she’

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      • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        It is masculine because a ship is full of seamen.

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      • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        But they still name ships with women’s names, I stopped thinking too hard about this…

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    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So are washing machines, apparently.

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      • BlueLineBae@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Don’t put your dick in that

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    • matelt@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      La règle trente-trois, I see. Considered me enlightened!

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  • kronarbob@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you can make mysoginistic jokes about it, then it works : men get in cars just like in women. => so it’s “la”

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  • wioum@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    😏

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