Answer:
Gender is an example of a linguistic system of categorization that is inadequately connected. In many Indo-European languages, men' names denote their gender as "masculine," whereas female names indicate theirs.
It varies from language to language whether or not a difference is drawn between "animate" and "inanimate" entities. In this case, we are concerned with assigning meaning to new products. Even if the referent is abstract or inanimate, the implications of gender difference should presumably apply to all members of the masculine and feminine classes.
