The Political Asylum

Vintage Girl · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 6:31 pm Post subject: What gender is your computer?

A group of women concluded that computers should be referred to in masculine gender because:
1) In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.
2) They have a lot of data but are still clueless.
3) They are supposed to help you solve your problems, but half the time they ARE the problem.
4) As soon as you commit to one, you realise that, if you had waited a little longer, you could have had a better model.

A group of men, on the other hand, decided that computers should definitely be referred to in the feminine gender because:
1) No one, but their creator, understands their internal logic.
2) The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehnsible to everyone else.
3) Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for later retrieval.
4) As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheque on accessories.
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adrien · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:01 pm Post subject:

I don't know if linguistics can help bring an answer to this tricky question, but in French, Spanish, Italian and German, "ordinateur", "ordenador", "computer" and... "Computer" are all grammatically masculine nouns.
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Vintage Girl · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:38 pm Post subject:

Well then, we ladies rest our case. Laughing

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BlueEmperor · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:51 pm Post subject:

I guess, instinctively, I regard my PC in the masculine form because whenever it crashes I yell at it; "You sonofab*tch!!!"

B.E.
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ukus · Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 72

Mine is gender free an affectionately called 'you bloody bastard' !

Jen · Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 64

Mine is of the animal variety..as in when it crashed I yell at it "You piggin bastard."

Vintage Girl · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:49 am Post subject:

I have been known to call mine 'you useless piece of shit', but I don't really mean it. You know what they say, 'you always hurt the one you love.' Cool

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Mpls Druid · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject:

Mine is female cuz I usually refer to it as "You Wench!"