In electrical and mechanical trades and manufacturing, each half of a pair of mating connectors or fasteners is conventionally assigned the designation male or female...
The assignment is a direct analogy with genitalia and heterosexual sex... Extension of the analogy results in the verb to mate being used to describe the process of connecting two corresponding parts together.
Friday, November 23, 2018
Not that there's anything wrong with that
Wikipedia -- Gender of connectors and fasteners:
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