| wondering, if you have something sentient but nonliving, such as perhaps a statue, which appears female, whether "it" or "she" would be the more appropriate pronoun | REGRET INDEX:
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I was referring to a non-ordinary statue!: Perhaps a FICTIONAL one. Anyway, it was just an example.
Or a robot?: I guess I was thinking of this too much in terms of present nonfiction, and thought you were using "sentient" where "athropomorphic" should be.
That said: People refer to plenty of non-sentient, non-anthropomorphic things with gendered pronouns... ships, for example, so using "she" wouldn't be weird at all.
rachel: I would assume the statue, being sentient, would decide for her/itself?
sa: In the case of a non-sentient statue of a female, use "it"/"its" when referring to the object, and "she"/"her" when referring to the entity thus depicted.
Ben "The Ox" G: People often tend to MANTHROPOMORPHIZE objects. That's a word I invented!
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