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Originally Posted by Raiju32
For all the people talking about the "feminine" word for I in japanese... Japanese is not a male/female/plural language like spanish (ex: chiko/chika)
The only "feminine" that japanese has is that some words have お infront of them that men aren't expected to pronounce but women are. (ex: boxed lunch [men]べんと [women]おべんと)
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Sorry, but that's not correct
It's true that Japanese words have neither male/female/neutrum gender nor singlular/plural distinction, but it *does* have lots of words that are "male speech" (to be used by me only) or "female speech" (to be used by women only). Recently though, some girls have started using the male-only "boku". You also might find this in anime where girls portrayed as tomboy often use "boku".
Concerning the prefixed お- (o-), it has *nothing* to do with male or female, but it is a *polite* speech pattern regardless which gender you are.
e.g. おべんとう obentô (ô=long o) is more polite than べんとう bentô.