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If you don’t like the use of two or three grammatical genders, Japanese would like to have a word with you (so to speak).

There are a lot different classifier systems in language around the world; gender is just a small example.

All these mechanisms are kinds of ECC.

presumably means "error correcting code", to save the next person from looking up jargon.

I'm well aware, but kanji and pitch accents are a lot cooler than remembering whether a table is male, female or neuter.

Japanese has tons of classifiers, not just the two or three that come with languages with gender.

The counter words are a pain…