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I agree with you it's the people that count, hence me questioning why it matters what pronouns you give an inanimate object that you own. If this is how discussions go down on this forum then I'll stick to bikes and keep my questions to myself. I was simply asking where the issue lies. My apologies.
FGNewbie-
There's a lot of nuance in the explanation which is too much to type out on a phone, but the crux of it is that it's a very simple language change we can make which helps us move away from gender inequality.
Put simply: if you use "she" to personify an object then you subconsciously objectify the pronoun (because it's always a "she" isn't it?) and therefore women.
IrPOWERranger
The bit where I said it's the people who count, not the object, and you whiffled on about your feelings for the object?