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FWIW (and probably not very much) I don't think what mrs m-v has done is the same thing as what inspired the OP of this thread. The use of "she" or "her" for inanimate objects (critically, possessions) has long been the stead of men. And in that being the case, has perpetuated the concept of objectification and ownership of women, by men. A woman doing the same thing, does not have the same inference.
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Certainly this threads ethos but a fairly narrowminded one.
Its not alway about condescending women, sometimes its celebrating them. Ie the origins of naming ships female names.
Also, if a woman names something a mans name are they being possesive?
When you name your child is it possessive?
For me, its just corny. Name yer telly, PC, whatever but its weird personifying anything you will either abuse or overly take care of. Just weird, objects < people, all day :)
.mo.
Mrs m_v has two bikes, she has named them Priscilla and Rod. Neither really has a gender t the names maybe suggest a gender.
I’m not going to mansplain to her that Rod is ok but Priscilla isn’t.