Just by the way, here's another of those mysteries of grammatical gender. La Patrie, which means literally "the Fatherland" is feminine gender. Go figure.

If think that's odd, how about...

Le féminisme
La masculinité

And one thing I have noticed is that some common idiomatic expressions pretty much the exact opposite in French.

ne réveillez pas le chat qui dort(don't wake a sleeping cat) = let sleeping dogs lie

avoir un chat dans la gorge (to have a cat in your throat) = to have a frog in one's throat

If the hat fits (French) = if the shoe fits
I didn't get the exact translation, but this French expression translation was used Toy Story 2.