• kemsat@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Never thought about it, but modes of transport are usually referred to as she/her, so this totally checks out.

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      2 months ago

      Machinery of any kind is often gendered in the feminine. Particularly when you are either mad at the machine for not working or you are begging it to work.

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        2 months ago

        The machine spirit cares not for our trifling concepts of gender and binaries. It demands only loyalty to the omnissiah and purity of mind.

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        2 months ago

        Always cracked me up when my uncle would yell at whatever he was working on, “come on, you whore!”