First, regarding 行こうか - is it masculine speech, like か in informal speech
usually is? Also, does it sound agressive, again like normal with か in
informal speech?

Second, is やめてよ feminine speech (as a command, if it can be used any other
way)? I know that やめて and やめてね aren't feminine speech as commands, but some
research indicates that やめてよ is. Please help.
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Masculine and Feminine Speech - 行こうか and やめてよ
In casual speech, asking about what sounds more feminine or more masculine can
be tricky. There are some things which are decidedly more manly or more
feminine-sounding. Others are more ambiguous or are pretty much gender-
neutral. You really have to hang around native speakers for a while and listen
to how they talk in order to learn which phrases seem more masculine/feminine.

In my experience, I've heard male and female native Japanese use both 行こうか and
やめてね.

That said, 行こうか seems pretty gender-neutral. As a male, I use it myself a lot,
but it's perfectly normal to hear a female say it.

I'd say that やめてね is something that a girl is much more likely to say than a
guy. I've heard mostly females use it. Although a couple times I have heard my
college-age male friends use it, but in sort of a joking, whiny way.
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None of them are neither masculine speech nor feminine speech.
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Some words indeed have strong association with gender, but those are less and
less heard from real, especially younger, people.

  * 行こうか

It doesn't sound particularly male or female, but do sound drier or more
unemotional than other possible expressions, thus I can imagine male and
female speaker would use this phrase in different situations. (If I were
talking with my friends, I'd use 行こう or 行こっか.)

  * やめてよ

This one is gender-neutral too. But if you emphasize the て (which the accent
core lies) with extra high pitch, you can easily make it sound exclusively
female. (It's almost universal phenomenon that male(-like) speech is more
intoned than female(-like) speech.)

Since やめて is less straightforward than the other choice, namely やめろ, I can
likewise imagine that average male and female speaker might choose different
ones depending on who and when they're talking.
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