Talk:Flower/@comment-24.176.167.191-20160104000304/@comment-53539-20160219090455

How is a ship a "she"?

Its also an animate object. We assign male and female gender titles to animate objects to convey certain gender implications onto them. Its no different.

But it does not change that is we change the word used, we change the meaning of the sentence, ergo, it becomes incorrect quote of what was basically said. We can be politically correct all we want, but we cannot ask individuals to be the same. If we had to quote someone who swore their head off, those same swear words would need to be referenced, even if censored. Thus this is the problem as it is presented. On the one hand, we have a politically incorrect statement, on the other, we have a politically incorrect statement made by someone we're quoting.