Computer: Male or Female ?

[Coldie]

A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.

”House” for instance, is feminine: ”la casa.” ”Pencil,” however, is masculine: “el lapiz.”
A student asked, “What gender is ‘computer’?’ ‘

Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether ”computer” should be a masculine or a feminine noun.

Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.

The men’s group decided that ”computer” should definitely be of the feminine gender (”la computer”), because: {...}

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[Swtrose]

Are you making your rounds to blogging forums? You posted this same thing on bloggerforum.com, Blog Mastermind, Blog Experiment, bloggeries & Authority Blogger Forum too. You missed at least 4 more blogging forums. Yes I'm being very sarcastic.

[Coldie]

Howdy Pretty,

Thanks for reading the same post again, I have to repeat to tel you that my post is for others ppl in this forum to read... You always can chose not to read the same one again...

[ian23]

i think that my computer is a female... because it does everything i please...

[rirara]

Originally Posted by ian23

i think that my computer is a female... because it does everything i please...

It is male for the same reason

[Vilice]

Why I have seen the same words again and again ,do you earn by posting ?

[CJ John]

Darn, I really wanted to see the end of this story!

The link leads to a parked domain now... bummer.

[sydneymatt]

Ditto.

Still, just re the idea that a computer has a gender: I thought at first that computers might be male, since they have been designed mainly by blokes. Also, because they are not impulsive, emotional things (well, not usually).

But on second thoughts men can be just as emotional as women. Also, women really like computers, and find them easy to use.

For these reasons I'd say (at the risk of "copping out") that they are either hermaphrodites, or genderless (asexual).