What offends me is that the French "gender" for vehicles is female, as evidenced by the gender tense used "la", "cette", etc. Why does a modern language assign genders to inanimate non-living objects? Not only is gender irrelevant to a car, it is impossible to implement!
In fact, in our modern world, gender needs to be totally irrelevant except for procreation! That is its only function!!!
Whew, feel better now. Off soapbox.
Sue
