growing up with a language with grammatical gender is so fucked up sometimes; like for my previous post i almost typed in "prime ministress" because i'm used to thinking about politics in israeli/hebrew terms
gender, language, oh no the sapir whorfianists were right
also in the post where @else he/himmed their car; i, for some inexplicable reason, immediately thought "oh ok so now i should refer to him as אוטו (/oto/ 'car' or 'auto-') because it's in the grammatical masculine instead of מכונית (/mexonit/ 'car', literally 'machine' + '-ette') which is in the grammatical feminine" DESPITE there being literally NO context in my life in which i would be using gosh dang HEBREW to communicate about him!
for the rest of my life, some part of my brain is going to be exclusively dedicated to the assignment of and compliance with (grammatical?) genders of not only every person but also every inanimate object
