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Indeed, you are the bigger faggot here. Tanks are not human, so they are 0% gay, while women are humans so they are at least 50% gay

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So, tanks are also considered masculine, or at least something gender-neutral, which means the quote is incorrect. However, ships are almost universally treated as feminine, with only a few exceptions.

Morphological and syntactic properties
ko-rábl’

Noun, inanimate, masculine gender

Clear.

As a fan of the Prakosmas series, I can say that in English, ships are referred to using feminine pronouns.

As someone with a slight familiarity with nautical themes, I can say that in English, ships are referred to using feminine pronouns.

As for the Maidens, I can immediately recall a song about a ship and a song about an airship, and in both cases, "she" is used.

It would be interesting to see a Russian living in the CIS refer to the language of a potential opponent...

This doesn't even relate to linguistics. Sailors, being overwhelmingly male, treated ships with affection and regarded them as women. I don't know, of course, how it is with Russians living in the CIS; maybe they genuinely prefer their partner on a long sea voyage to be male.

I don't know, of course, how it is for Russians living in the CIS, maybe they really prefer it when their partner on a long sea voyage is a man.

Well, you know best, you are Russian....

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I see....

Ships are most often given female names, although perhaps not in our country with all the "Verny"s and "Potemkin"s. But that only goes to show that for us it's somehow not very poetic...
Though, there is the famous PoBeda.
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And yes,
woman -- human
human -- masculine noun

Woman -- man?

Here, be very careful. I'm just reminding you that Ment is no longer the person everyone used to think he was.

Perhaps, right from the start. However, he didn't understand the joke.

Ships are most often given female names, although this is more common in our country with all sorts of "Vernye" and "Potemkins."

That's exactly what I'm talking about. We live in Russian-speaking countries (Revan no longer does), and we speak Russian. What's the point of this absurd LARP about the fact that since the English speak of ships as women, it means that a ship is a woman – it's unclear.

woman -- a person
person -- a word of masculine gender
Woman -- a man?

A woman has primary sexual characteristics that define her as a woman. A ship does not have sexual characteristics. Therefore, the only way to determine its gender is to use its "gender" in the Russian language.
Moreover, it wasn't me who started this, but Revan himself, who called tanks "men" and ships "women." At the same time, for tanks, he referred to the Russian language, but for ships, he no longer does. It's a very strange position on his part.

Therefore, the only way to determine its gender is to use its "gender" in the Russian language.

I believe that it is better to determine the gender of anything inanimate based on one's own preferences, because in the end, it is more about a metaphor than about any linguistic rules. And the assumed gender of the subject of conversation and the grammatical gender of the word used to refer to it do not have to match; this is acceptable in Russian. Examples include various job titles, which often lack feminine forms. Another example: when we see a "dog" in the street, we are more likely to simply call it a dog, rather than looking under its tail.
French, of course, is more convenient in this regard; everything is strictly divided by gender, and there is no such unpleasant neuter gender. One could say that people know how to speak beautifully.