HUMOR
What Sex Is Your Computer?
Unlike many other languages, English nouns are neither masculine nor
feminine. However, we tend to think of many nouns as belonging to one
gender or the other. Most people think of a doll as being feminine and a gun
as being masculine. Yet no particular gender is generally associated with a
computer.
Therefore, I decided to consider a variety of factors that I relate to computers
and then apply that knowledge to determine which sex it most resembles. I
used eight things I know about computers. It seemed to me that four on my
list were male traits and four were female traits.
1 If you want a computer to do anything, you have to turn it on first.
This sounds like a male user to me.
2 A computer has an internal logic that only its creator understands.
This is feminine from my viewpoint.
3 A computer uses a native language to communicate with others that
can be difficult to understand. This also reminds me of a woman.
4 Despite the large amount of data that a computer can store, it is not
capable of thinking for itself. My wife, Margaret, assures me this is a
male trait.
5 A computer is lauded for its ability to solve problems but many times,
the computer itself is the problem. This is another male characteristic.
6 Every mistake we make is stored in a computer’s memory and
retained for later retrieval. Women seem to thrive on this ability.
7 Once you choose a computer, you realize that if you had waited a little
longer, you may have gotten something that was much better. I give
this one to men for being more fickle.
8 After choosing a computer, you will spend large sums of
money to purchase accessories and other such additional items for it.
This was close, but I find this to be more true of women.
No wonder we refer to our computers as it, rather than he or she.
I’m not myself today and everybody has noticed the improvement 101