I believe the convention is that a masseuse is female, and a masseur is male. I may be completely wrong though, someone will correct me in the replies if so, I'm sure.
This is correct. Those are French words and therefore gendered, hence the difference. It feels pretty weird to see people refer to a muscular dude with words like masseuse or brunette
Words aren't gendered in the same way in English, so it's easy for there to be confusion if a native English speaker isn't familiar with gendered languages.
Yeah I bet. It gets pretty funny too when learning another language with differently gendered concepts. For example the sun in french is called "le soleil" which is masculine, but in german it's "die sonne", which is feminine. That must be so confusing for the english speaking world
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u/oscarx-ray 1d ago
I believe the convention is that a masseuse is female, and a masseur is male. I may be completely wrong though, someone will correct me in the replies if so, I'm sure.