AIBU to not like inanimate objects being called 'she'?

[LylaLee]

I'm not on a campaign or anything, but this is just something that annoys me and I came to ask if IABU to find it jarring/grating.

I know that historically ships get called 'she' and that already annoyed me.

But now I'm seeing it everywhere. On YouTube someone gets a new belt: 'she's going to look great'.

On Instagram, someone's sewn a dress = 'she fits really well.'

Someone gets a wig: 'she looks really natural'.

It's almost as if 'female = an item to serve/be used/passively be of service'.

Oh, you say, they're just being playful and whimsical, anthropomorphising the object.

But they are never, ever, ever called 'he'. I've never heard it.

AIBU?

Our septic tank was emptied today and the man who am to do it referred to the tank as 'she' several times!

Apart from ships/boats and some men referring to their cars I've never heard anyone call inanimate objects he or she.

Everything I own is an it.

When talking about animals and birds, wild and tame, that I see around, unless I know otherwise I tend to refer to them as he/him, which is odd really given that my dog is female. Obviously, I refer to her as she/her.

They decided on La Covid...

Lol I know who you mean. Delightfully dotty. But yes, they are all doing it. I'm not sure when it started.

It goes back before we had bottle feeding etc, if women didn't nurture the very young, we'd have died out as a species. Misogynistic in more modern times, but not from the time it came from.

I haven't heard of it for clothing, that's just weird. As for cars all of mine have been female, all of DHs have been male. Everything else that's inanimate is "it".

Yeah, it's all like "She's got some great sequins, but some are coming off already, and I ordered a size 10 but she feels more like size 12."

Wtf

My robot hoover has a name and is also a he.

Ships have always been referred to as She.
My cars have all been female. Every other inanimate object is known as 'it'
Not something to get worked up about really

Non gendering stuff is quite unique to the English language.
As we become a country with a more multi linguistic population gendering nouns will become more popular.

It's a sign of respect and usually means the item should be treated well eg. ship

Threads like this remind me why I hate most SM.

I like it. It makes a change from male being default for everything else. Plus ships are cool.

All my house plants have names and they are male or female just depending on what I decide when I buy them.

Andrea's Fashion Galaxy by any chance? I love her.

"Come here, Belinda!" 😁

Yeah I didn't like the way Keir Starmer kept calling Israel 'she' when all started kicking off. A very old fashioned usage and yes jarring as a PP said.

That's her, I adore her, absolutely beautifully barmy woman that she is. She's the only one it doesn't annoy me when she calls everything "she"!

Naming inanimate objects drives my mum potty, I think because of a hatred of baby talk (cuggles, sleeps till Christmas, holibobs etc) so now just about everything in my house has a name. Still catches her off guard when I ask dh to turn Christopher off or where cinnamon is parked. I think it’s just suggestive of a connection to the object, sailors loved their ships, i love Christopher (an air fryer) and someone loves their new wig. In my defence, it’s eccentric and part of a long running joke. I don’t think I do outside family though.

it's (mainly american) black woman/gay/ballroom drag community vernacular that has seeped into the mainstream esp younger social media users
"she's givingggg. she's serving." etc

Andrea is nuts but brilliant. While she always looks amazing, I probably wouldn't wear (or suit for that matter) a single outfit that she puts together. Yet she is such a joy to watch. 😀

And yes, her use of she for her clothes items never bothers me. It's a funny quirk, and I believe she's German anyway, so gendering clothes probably makes more sense to her...

Yes, because it's her 'act' iykwim.

The others are doing it unironically.

I was going to say that throughout the south west, things are usually "he".

I think another part of it is that they are not calling everything she. Only the wig/the dress.

While I will forgive Andrea’s Fashion Galaxy anything, I do get tired of the rest of TikTok saying “She’s giving…” when talking about an item of makeup, because it’s just icky. It’s a fucking inanimate object and you’re a native anglophone so it doesn’t have or need a gender attached to it.

But I also have a hatred of this applying things like primer and foundation straight to the face from the pump or tube, which is just unhygienic, along with a few other trending mannerisms I could easily consign to the bin. So no, OP YANBU.

But then plenty of posters have also said they assign things a male gender too - so it’s a non issue.

I bet someone would be moaning
if everything was referred to as male because ‘patriarchy’ or some other nonsense.