Why are large objects referred to as "she's" and not "he's"?

This goes for most things from cars, to large vessels, to even planets.

Can someone explain or speculate as to how this could have started?

Do you have a problem with females or something?

Because guys usually love those things, and guys usually like girls.

People love their cars, some men would prefer to refer to their car as a she rather than a he.

Hmm... good question. Maybe it has somekind of very old religous meaning. Such as how Eve was created from Adam. Where in this case from man (Adam) creates a ship (Eve).

Meh. I don't know. lol.

People love their cars, some men would prefer to refer to their car as a she rather than a he.

GaussMonkey

They're treated with love and respect, like any good woman.

And also men go inside them.

They are almost exclusively built and operated by men, especially in the past, and it would sound g@y to have said "he's a beauty" "I'm sailing him across the Atlantic" etc

They are almost exclusively built and operated by men, especially in the past, and it would sound g@y to have said "he's a beauty" "I'm sailing him across the Atlantic" etc

-Red-Cell-

i think.. it has gone too far in some cases..

i think.. it has gone too far in some cases..

VaguelyTagged

i think.. it has gone too far in some cases..

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While I don't remember where I've heard this, I believe "large things" like ships, etc are referred to as female because they sustain the life of the crew, not unlike how a mother sustains her infant child.

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i think.. it has gone too far in some cases..

kayoticdreamz

i think.. it has gone too far in some cases..

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i think.. it has gone too far in some cases..

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i think.. it has gone too far in some cases..

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"But his wandering eye has spread beyond cars to other vehicles. He says that his most intense sexual experience was "making love" to the helicopter from 1980s TV hit Airwolf."

What..the hell?

i have a linguistics based answer but when i came in the thread and saw young goku i knew it would not be worth my timesurrealnumber5

Oh c'mon! young goku kicks ass. =V

This goes for most things from cars, to large vessels, to even planets.

Can someone explain or speculate as to how this could have started?

KeitekeTokage

i have a linguistics based answer but when i came in the thread and saw young goku i knew it would not be worth my timesurrealnumber5

The silver T would like to hear that answer.

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]i have a linguistics based answer but when i came in the thread and saw young goku i knew it would not be worth my timeBaconbits2004

Oh c'mon! young goku kicks ass. =V

[QUOTE="KeitekeTokage"]

This goes for most things from cars, to large vessels, to even planets.

Can someone explain or speculate as to how this could have started?

Teenaged

[QUOTE="Baconbits2004"]

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]i have a linguistics based answer but when i came in the thread and saw young goku i knew it would not be worth my timesurrealnumber5

Oh c'mon! young goku kicks ass. =V

[QUOTE="KeitekeTokage"]

This goes for most things from cars, to large vessels, to even planets.

Can someone explain or speculate as to how this could have started?

Teenaged

i have a linguistics based answer but when i came in the thread and saw young goku i knew it would not be worth my timesurrealnumber5

The silver T would like to hear that answer.

If I had a car, I'd probably name it after how I felt which sex it was. Stubborn, but reliable - female. Fast but sets out at the worst of times, and swallows gas like mad - male. :P And ships are female because the galleon figure is the only female allowed on a ship - old sailor myth.Deihjan

Has on-board GPS, male.
Fits 8 kds and commonly makes trips to soccer practice... female. >_>

learned about grammatical genders when learning french but because i dont want to waste my time on a thread where i feel nothing said will be read if you really want to read about it here is a wiki

surrealnumber5

Is it implied from it that those objects carry on the female pronoun because they are of a specific declension cIass? I really dont get it.

[QUOTE="Teenaged"]

[QUOTE="KeitekeTokage"]I thought all planets were referred to as "it".

i have a linguistics based answer but when i came in the thread and saw young goku i knew it would not be worth my timesurrealnumber5

The silver T would like to hear that answer.

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]

learned about grammatical genders when learning french but because i dont want to waste my time on a thread where i feel nothing said will be read if you really want to read about it here is a wiki

Is it implied from it that those objects carry on the female pronoun because they are of a specific declension cIass? I really dont get it.

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]

learned about grammatical genders when learning french but because i dont want to waste my time on a thread where i feel nothing said will be read if you really want to read about it here is a wiki

Is it implied from it that those objects carry on the female pronoun because they are of a specific declension cIass? I really dont get it.

[QUOTE="Teenaged"]

The silver T would like to hear that answer.

[QUOTE="metalkitten"] for example when learning a roman language like spanish, french or portuguese or german (there are more ill just take those i dealt with) all subjects are either male or female (or neutral - depending on language), so lets say a butterfly is in portuguese a borboleta (most words who end with a is feminine) so when putting borboleta in a sentence u need to think of it being female in an kind of bending, also people who has mother tounge as one of those languages will often in english refer to it as a she or he - depending what it is in their language that might explain some but growing up sailing i heard other stories of sailing boats and my countrys language dont use masculine or feminine or objects so the language thing might only be a part of itTeenaged

depends on the language and some nouns can be either or depending on who is using it and how, but the point is, most vehicles are woman as a throwback in their etymology. just a carry over from ships and carts that we still deal with today.surrealnumber5

It's because men refer to women as objects, and in return, to objects as women.

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It's because men refer to women as objects, and in return, to objects as women.

svenus97

Mr. Treehorn

[QUOTE="metalkitten"][QUOTE="surrealnumber5"] learned about grammatical genders when learning french but because i dont want to waste my time on a thread where i feel nothing said will be read if you really want to read about it here is a wiki

surrealnumber5

i hate to point it out to u but boat is actually masculine in french... same with portuguese and spanish, feminine in italian though

and yes TEENAGED ure right about how it mostly just explain how the ones born with the language may refer to the english word as a she or he cause theyre so used to it being that - my bf who is portuguese do it all the time - and i go- oh so thats a he or she then?:P apart from that he's excellent in english though

i do belive more in the old ship story about sailmen etc i was only trying to explain the languages who use the male and female objects and how it works

[QUOTE="Deihjan"]If I had a car, I'd probably name it after how I felt which sex it was. Stubborn, but reliable - female. Fast but sets out at the worst of times, and swallows gas like mad - male. :P And ships are female because the galleon figure is the only female allowed on a ship - old sailor myth.Baconbits2004

Has on-board GPS, male.
Fits 8 kds and commonly makes trips to soccer practice... female. >_>

i have a linguistics based answer but when i came in the thread and saw young goku i knew it would not be worth my timesurrealnumber5