Originally Posted By: twosleepy
Why not "willshe-nillshe"? These sexist languages...*sigh*


For what it's worth, when gender meant something in English the word from whence we got woman was masculine gender. Whether this meant that the masculine pronoun was used with it I wouldn't know. Modern German uses the sex-appropriate pronoun for any noun that refers to anything that has a sex regardless of its grammatical gender, but uses the grammatically appropriate pronoun for anything for which sex is irrelevant, e.g., der Wind is er, 'he' and die Fahne, 'flag' is sie, 'she.'