Comment by kubanczyk

> just like English speakers are used to having to know and specify the gender of everyone around them, including cats and dogs

Welp, you have no idea. In German and in Slavic languages you'd have to know and specify the gender of every single noun. Is a coat the same gender as a beer, or different? Is orange the same gender as capitalism? Every. Single. Noun.

And they have three genders, obviously.