It isn't coincidental most words for men and male animals are masculine and most words for women and female animals are feminine.
It's the people who complain about "SJWs" who say sex and gender are the same.
It's the people who complain about "SJWs" who say sex and gender are the same.
Ironically, you've just confirmed what GP said by confusing the concept of grammatical gender with the modern social studies concept of gender.
still, the grammatical sense predates the sex sense by a bit, and has always been around to mean “genre”. So you always have to disambiguate usage
And then people usually get very huffy about which non-sentient nouns “share” “their” “gender”.
> And then people usually get very huffy about which non-sentient nouns “share” “their” “gender”.
Seems rare to me.