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It's not a person, doesn't have any sort of social characteristics, so it doesn't have a gender any more than a lamp with a very convincing fake beard.
Really depends on your language. In french lamps are females for example.
J'adore [la] lampe.
Ooh la la
In Italian too.
Lamps aren't female in French, they're feminine but this is purely grammatical and doesn't imply any social gender. It's just part of the word - see "fleuve" and "rivière", both words meaning river, one masculine one feminine.
Says you! My side table goes by the pronouns of she/her.
No! Stop humping your side table.
She gave me permission.