Egad!

Just because you think of an instrument (or car, or other inanimate, yet interactive object) as having a name and gender, doesn't mean you want to have sex with it. Can someone be so devoid of imagination that they think that the only reason for mentioning gender is because of sex? Whatever to make of languages where gender of objects is integral to the language, oh my! or...er... pardonez-moi!

Guitarists though... especially rock guitarists... some of them DO look as though they're getting more than a good bass line from how they bash that thing... just sayin.'

Joanne In Cleveland who does not boff her concertina