What Gender is Computer?

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 computadora'), because:
1. No one but their creator understands
their internal logic;
2. The native language they use to communicate
with other computers is incomprehensible
to everyone else;
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored
in long term memory for possible laterretrieval; and
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one,
you find yourself spending half your paycheck
on accessories for it.

(THIS GETS BETTER!)

The Women's group, however, concluded that
Computers should be Masculine ('el computador'), because:
1. In order to do anything with them,
you have to turn them on;
2. They have a lot of data but still
can't think for themselves;
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems,
but half the time they ARE the problem; and
4. As soon as you commit to one,
you realize that if you had waited a little longer,
you could have gotten a better model.

The Women won.