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True love is apparently still forbidden in the military (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/noncredibledefense
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[–] fluxion 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_ships_of_the_United_States_Navy

It's a mixed bad but seems like mostly masculine names to me. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nope. You always use the feminine (well, or neutral) pronoun. Never the masculine.

It doesn't matter whether the original name is from a human man. It's still "she" and "her".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think you understand, but I also don't care.

[–] fluxion 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you wanna keep banging shipgirls named John McCain and Abraham Lincoln be my guest, but it seems a bit suspect to me

[–] Madison420 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh the nicknames don't help.

Big Bad John And Stinkin Lincoln respectively. Then there's the Harry s Truman "The Big Stick".