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Or, read the article on noun classifiers, as used in most East Asian languages. They are much more like “pair of pants” or “piece of bread” than they are like “el gato”.
I'm not arguing that there aren't (somewhat) genderless languages, or that pronouns are in some sense "naturally" gendered. But it's entirely coherent to me that masculine/feminine would be right up there with animate/inanimate under "salient features that frame social reality."
I agree; certainly the Chinese and the Turks don’t lack for what we have come to call gender roles. I’m just gonna leave this here; it’s salient.pic.twitter.com/8vmJ8fAXyx
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