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I won't fall in love with a thing. I won't fall in love with a male thing.
I will fall in love with my bikes, which are all 'she'.On a serious note, I don't really see the problem. In many languages things have a gender, so for me it's more than natural to refer to bikes a 'she', same for cars as they have that gender in Italian too.
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Fair enough, who am I to judge. It's similar in german but I find it weird when I read it in english. As much as I love my bikes, they're still inanimate objects and imo he or she are reserved for living beings. Needless to say that I would find it equally awkward when women or homsexual men referred to their bikes as 'he'.
Sig_Arlecchino
Absolutely perfect, the only thing I'd change is referring to it as 'it' ;)
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