Talk:Glowfly/@comment-2.3.246.114-20181024085933/@comment-37233351-20181024162715

Yes, maybe, when it is translated, but here the glowfly specifically has no gender. You keep comparing it to a "libellule", but it's not! ^^ It's not "UNE libellule", it's "A glowfly", and it has no gender. You can't just say "when you don't know something you just take the closest thing as a reference, and apply all its characteristics to the new object", just by analogy! We don't talk about a dragonfly here, we talk about a glowfly, and this has no gender! Even if in the French version they'll choose to translate it to "une brillemouche", I still won't agree with THIS sentence, with the word "amie" written this way. Because we don't talk about the french version of the word, but the english version, and it's completely different! If everything was written in French, like "illumine mon chemin, mon amie libellule (ou brillemouche, whatever)", why not, even if it still feels weird, but this sentence is definitely not valid.

Your main argument is to say that we don't know the gender, and for you, it's a proof that we can't tell if it's a mistake or not. For me, this argument is precisely the reason why they can't apply the feminine gender to it.