The default gender is (usually) male, so I like to play with this by choosing the female gender whenever I have a free choice.
Nevertheless, branches and sub-divisions of any type are typically feminine—always sisters or daughters. Perhaps the reason for this is that the sisters and daughters inherit the ability of their mothers to again divide/branch/etc and this is considered a female trait.
Interesting and thanks. I haven’t noticed this before: for whatever reason, I’ve only seen nodes in a tree structure referred to as “parent” and “child.”
The default gender is (usually) male, so I like to play with this by choosing the female gender whenever I have a free choice.
Nevertheless, branches and sub-divisions of any type are typically feminine—always sisters or daughters. Perhaps the reason for this is that the sisters and daughters inherit the ability of their mothers to again divide/branch/etc and this is considered a female trait.
...I found this answer on yahoo.
Interesting and thanks. I haven’t noticed this before: for whatever reason, I’ve only seen nodes in a tree structure referred to as “parent” and “child.”
In semantics we called them daughters. Shrug.
Males divide and inherit equally well :)
I always assumed that the predominantly male engineers behind terms like motherboard / daughterboard were simply lonely.