38. Based on the passage, what can be inferred about how people perceive objects in languages that have gender (masculine/feminine)?
(A) Speakers are aware of their bias and try to ignore it when they are speaking formally.
(B) Speakers of Romance languages have a more fixed view of social gender roles than others.
(C) People's understanding of an object depends only on its use, not on the word used to describe it.
(D) The characteristics people associate with an object often match the grammatical gender in their language.