I must agree with Geoff.
I always felt strange that someone referred to their car as a she or he. It
is an object and should be an it. The best compliment you can make
concerning a car is that you the owner is sensitive enough to the problems of
this machine to feel all of its many nuances. You listen, smell, note the
gauges, feel the driving and so forth. In effect you are "communicating"
with this machine on a very diagnostic and high level. By just giving it a
gender you are being very dismissal of the subtleties of this unique machine
and excusing any variance by comparing to preconceived notions of the
behavior of a gender. This in turn does not say much for the owner's
intelligence or ability to find a solution to the machines aches.
On the other hand, maybe cars have a gender because the owner does not have a
human relationship or understanding of the real thing.
Thank you for reading this mornings diatribe.
53 TDMike
Michael Balahutrak
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