Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Shameless self-promotion/reply (13)

Several studies with people who natively speak languages that have gendered nouns do show a tendency to describe "female" things with softer, sterotypically "female" descriptions. Even when the "things" are the same. For example, voiture vs. vehicule -- same damn thing, using "voiture" will get female sounding descriptions, and "vehicule" male descriptions. without really noticing. Even when the only reason the noun carries one gender or another is linguistic. clearly, language does modify what we think and how we think about it... even if it's not a controlling factor.