What is the convention for the gender assignments of D-15 video plugs/jacks

What is the purpose of asking this question?  All video cards that I know of have female VGA connectors, as do monitors.  What is the question about plugs and jacks?  Cables typically have male ends, unless they're extenders.

What Callandor said.

>> which is male and which is female

Males have the pins.
Females have the holes.

I didn't ask for the difference between male and female, really! Moreover, it was an after-thought anyway. What I asked is the difference between plugs and jacks, or put another way, the separate definitions of each. They don't mean the same thing after all, yet the two words are always used interchangably. The difference is in the gender between the two. Most people aren't aware of this.

As for the purpose of the question, it was mainly for fun. You can get the answer from Google in ten seconds, but I wanted to make a point. And speaking of points, another purpose of the question is to award an easy 125 points.

A plug is attached to a cable
A jack is attached to the device.
A video card would have a jack and the cable connecting to it would have a plug.

Actually rid,for clarification(I don't know if you were referring to my post) I didn't state that they were either female or male, just that they are jacks when on devices and plugs when on cabling. The gender is not really an issue.

These certainly are old conventions, but merely being on a cable, which is also known as "cord-mounted", is not what confers gender. If that were the case, what would we call the ends of cables which have a male on one end and a female on the other end as so many do? Check out your the power cord to your computer.

So it is not gender that confuses me because, after all, gender is pretty straightforward. If the conductor is formed as a projection then it is a male, and if the conductor is formed as a receptacle, then it is a female. No problem. My problem comes from the convention which assigns gender to the words jack and plug. Both words are used interchangably, which means that on average they are misused half the time, right? When it comes down to it, I'll bet hardly anyone knows which is which.

Googling it gives a very definite answer: Plugs are male and jacks are female. That's it. No two ways about it. But why? After all, both words are overwhelmingly associated with the male in the English language. I think my next stop is the Oxford English Dictionary because the answer must come from some quirk of historical usage. Stay tuned.

I guess you PLUG  a  HOLE

Thanks a lot Experts!