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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Washing Machines are girls for some reason... same as dryers

[–] GrosPapatouf@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

In France, "lave-linge" and "machine à laver" are equally common. The first is masculine and the second feminine. For dryers, "sèche-linge" is definitely most common, and is masculine. Of course this might be very different in Quebec or other french-speaking regions.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't machine female? La machine

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

"La machine à laver," or "la laveuse"

But not all machines are X machine, some have specific names that could be either gender.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Just to confirm for people who don't know it's not the actual physical object that has a gender but the word

[–] finickydesert@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I think it's because of gender roles back in the day