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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[bandaid]

hmm if it matters, i think computers are male.

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[Renaissance Culinaire]

My computer is a male, I named him after the late James Brown....