You may think that languages where there is no such requirement are better for promoting open rather than group restricted view to existence, but consider this: Every time I hear on TV a girl referring, for fun, to her breasts as "the girls" or a guy to his twins as "the boys" I feel it strange because in my native language the former is masculine while the latter is feminine. Also, the mouth and nose, for example, are masculine, while the eye and ear are feminine. Mustache is masculine while beard is feminine. Hair, skin and womb are all masculine. Arm, hand, feet and leg are all feminine.
By the way just saw google's writing in english letters the translation of "leg" to arabic as "rajul" which means "man". The one for "leg" is more like "rijl". Both are written the same way in arabic letters if you do not include the little vowels that accompany the letters, which is usually the case for simplicity and easiness.
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