Computers

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 and give four reasons why computer should be a masculine or a feminine noun.

   The men’s group decided that computer should definitely be of the feminine gender (“la computadora”) because of the following reasons:

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 later retrieval.

4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

   The women’s group, however, concluded that computer should be masculind (“el computador”) because of the following reasons:

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. The are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem.

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 the debate.

Anonymous

Christian Womanhood July 2021