Snowman or snowwoman?

Kazuto Matsumura kazuto.matsumura at NIFTY.COM
Sun Jan 24 04:58:37 UTC 2010


Just for fun. Which is the 'default' gender of a figure of a person made 
from packed snow in your native language? For a majority of colleagues, 
the answer is 'male', I presume.

I've noticed it's 'female' for the Estonian colleagues: lumememm 'snow 
granny'. What other languages are feminist in this respect?

Incidentally, it's sunny today and there's absolutely no snow around 
here in Tokyo.

Best,
Kazuto

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