It's the classic:

"It's grade school biology!"

"Okay, but when you get to middle school..."

Meanwhile french plugs and outlets :

Another perfect example of flawed analogies and kneejerk conclusions vs. the benefit of thinking about it for a few seconds

Americans having a conversation about sexual orientation

It's simple. Humans aren't cables. Any questions?

Fun fact, the plugs used in Europe are intersex.

Most circuit boards are an absolute pride parade. You have your male to male/female to female connectors, MtF/FtM transformers, master/slave setups, multiport adapters, splitters, switches, docking, etc

Another example where this argument falls flat is spaceship docking connectors, which are genderless so they can all dock to every other one.

In space being heteronormative is less useful.

My favorites are the ones where the plug is live and the socket draws power, and if you hold the plug wrong you die.

I present to you the IBM hemaphroditic connector!

Behold: RP-SMA

No one tell the straights about generator pigtails

it's simple, as long as you don't know or think about anything

i mean males have 2 of the 3 holes too.

Old Czechoslovak oval 380V (3-phase 220V) plugs have 4 genders. The contact gender depends on whether the receptacle is a power source or sink, the sleeve gender depends on whether it's a cable mount (innie) or wall mount (outie). I hate this, they could have made it work with two while still keeping the water resistance flaps like the new CEE round ones.

Contact gender	Plug	Receptacle
Female
Male

This meant that people needed contraptions like this to extend cables:

We have a homemade one with a dodgy wooden base, and two outputs: one has two phases swapped for counterclockwise power.

The only universal truth is that there's a mate for everybody.