And...she's off!

[n2doc]

[ensho]

1. SHE??

shouldn't it be IT is off?

[n2doc]

2. Tradition refers to ships of all kinds as 'she' n/t

[ensho]

3. some patriarchal traditions stink and should be abandoned

nt

[sarge43]

4. Ships are called 'she' because they carry life. n/t

[johnroshan]

5. lol... nice way to deflect feminist criticism..

wait a minute.. are you insinuating that women are only good for bearing children??

Sometimes its better to just sit silently and :popcorn:

[sarge43]

11. Yeah, that's exactly what I think

which is why I reproduced at least ten times (lost count after that).
:sarcasm:

Merely repeating the explanation of a Navy CPO.

[Why Syzygy]

12. "feminist criticism"?

WTH? Women really ARE very well suited to carry life. Can you deal with it? The rocket is phallic. Is that not enough for you?

sheesh . someone looking for trouble? Or working out their own gender issues by casting aspersions on others?

[Occulus]

6. .

:spray: :rofl:

[Sinistrous]

7. And some are of vanishingly trivial importance.

Suggest you pick the subjects of you umbrage carefully, lest you become irrelevant.

[ensho]

8. your advice has me laughing out loud

nt

[Sinistrous]

9. Do you find yourself prone to inappropriate behavior?

Denial is no asset to the cause you purportedly espouse.

[damntexdem]

10. And some, like this one, don't matter.

While others, such as using the male form of a pronoun as the standard, do need to be replaced.

[qazplm]

13. and some are ridiculously trivial and meaningless

and harmless and are just fine to keep.

[sarge43]

14. I can think of no better blessing for a ship:

Fair winds and following seas, gallant lady.

[Odin2005]

19. OFFS!!! What a realy dumb post.

[TheMadMonk]

20. This one makes too much sense. Boats are also unpredictable...

...and hard on the pocketbook.

:hide:

BTW how's your French, German, Italian, Spanish, etc. Language and words have gender get over it.

[sudopod]

21. It varies by culture. The Russians and other Slavs call their ships "he". nt

[Recursion]

15. Only if you like to court disaster

I bet you'd say "left" and "right" onboard a ship, too...

[lumberjack_jeff]

16. Yes. "She"

[DavidDvorkin]

17. And ... he's off!

Great, powerful, virile beast thrusting himself into the Universe!

Woo hoo!

[ensho]

18. good one - like your humor

nt