Clothing and handbags do not have a gender. - Page 4

Johnnyeager · ‎09-05-2014

If I'm not allowed to use gender pronouns for people any longer, I'll save mine up and apply them to things. I like the idea.

My alarm clock, she woke me up this morning.

tototwo · ‎03-09-2010

Interesting comments above ......... hearing clothing items, etc., referred to as "she" does not offend me. But it does make the person saying it seem ignorant.

* A woman is like a tea bag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. *
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Patriot3 · ‎06-07-2010

@Venezia wrote:
@this is my nic- I couldn't agree with you more! Yes, it's been discussed before, but it is still just as ridiculous.

It also drives me nuts, when they keep saying you "wear" a handbag. No, you don't; it's not a piece of clothing. You "carry" a handbag.

I didn't realize they'd started referring to pieces of clothing as "she" or "her". I wonder why they want to dumb down everything? Cute, it isn't.

@Venezia I'm so glad you mentioned about "wearing" a handbag. That is the dumbest expression IMO. You don't wear it, you carry it!

Lisa Y · ‎09-07-2014

I think I'll wear my new handbag as she is lovely. Let me take you on a tour of her. 😜😁👜

Hippiified · ‎03-21-2017

Doesn’t bother me at all. It’s not a big deal. I think it sounds perfectly natural, and I don’t believe there is any grammatical rule about this.

Krimpette · ‎03-09-2010

Doesn't bother me at all.

wagirl · ‎03-09-2010

What cracks me up is when peope refer to "ALEXA" as a she when it is an it!! It's all silly!!

Cumbercookie13 · ‎05-06-2016

@Krimpette wrote:
Doesn't bother me at all.

Me neither.

suzyQ3 · ‎03-09-2010

@Mona_L wrote:
@Retired08 wrote:
@blueLagoon wrote:
Spanish:

la blusa = blouse (la is feminine ... her)
As I remember this, the la is used to indicate that it is a blouse for a woman, not a shirt for a man. Not to make the blouse a "she".

@Retired08 No, that's not correct. For instance .. if talking about lady's perfume ... in Spanish it is:

el perfume
La vendedora le traerá el perfume que quiere.
(Therefore, the word 'perfume' is masculine.)

@Mona_L, as several posters have already said, you are conflating languages that have a feminine and masculine delineation for nouns with the the actual attribution of gender to a noun in English.

~Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@Mothertrucker wrote:
Very true, in the English language, nouns have no gender, but in most others, including ALL Romance languages, they do..

In fact, in French, a purse is male... So is a hat, but a baselball cap is female...

Does this really actually bother people?

@Mothertrucker I guess only if we’re speaking in English. Lol