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[karmic sandal]

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[twin sand]

is this your attempt on sexist comedy? it sure ain't working mon grand

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[potent trail]

Honestly I found this super nice how most of the words related to that are female so it's easier to remember.

La capacité, l'aptitude, La compétence, l'habilité

Savoir-faire is similar but is different it'd more like know how in English so that's masculine so then it's easier to remember that it's also le savoir and le pouvoir.

May or may not be a troll post but I hope this helps someone.

[somber quail]

This was almost definitely a troll post. Also note that we refer to grammatical gender as masculine and feminine rather than male and female and it has essentially no connection to biological sex. Just think of them as noun categories!

[tropic compass]

Fun fact: that's because grammatical gender was invented before gender roles were! In reality, we're the ones doing it wrong

[pearl perch]

To be honest I don't think we can confidently say that
You'd have to ask anthropologists about when gender roles began, but it seems to me that some animals already have gendered roles, so we ought to be able to expect the same thing for humanoids from the time before spoken language…

At any rate, it's really best to think of them noun categories, or better yet "noun classes" as they are known linguistically.

[delicate lance]

besides there's no doing it “wrong”

grammatical gender is tied to gender roles today, which may be unfortunate, but that's what it is. Maybe it was before, or maybe it wasn't