Long time, no see, Llawygath. Welcome back.
On the relative pointlessness of sex-based gender, I'll direct you to another post I've made lately.
viewtopic.php?p=1014385#p1014385I'd just add two things:
1) Avoid conflating "masculine/feminine" with "male/female". One pair is a linguistic concept, the other a biological one. And also avoid conflating a noun with the object it describes. In French, the word "table" is in the feminine grammatical gender. That does not mean that tables themselves are somehow feminine, nor does it mean they are of the female sex. Neither of those things is the point. See my previous post (in this thread or the linked one) for more on that.
2) The names "masculine" and "feminine" are totally arbitrary. If we called these genders something else, like Gender A and Gender B, they'd still function the same way, but there'd be a lot fewer misconceptions about them.
N'hésite pas à corriger mes erreurs.