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For questions about using gendered words or phrases in English.

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When the Gentle Giant song "Black Cat" refers to a cat as "she", does that mean the cat is f...

This cat is 100% a female. There are no arbitrarily gendered nouns in English. The personal pronouns "he/she/him/her..." are only used when referring to nouns that are gendered by definition, such as …
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