You can all keep your remarks safely inside, I think I found an answer to my question! As valid as any other.
https://www.gotquestions.org/wickedness-woman.html
Good detective work! Seems quite reasonable.
Excellent! Thanks! As a nearly monolingual English speaker the assigning of genders to inanimate objects and free floating concepts isn’t something I normally think of (except ships are female, even if named after a male, unless you’re Russian, then ships are male...)