Joke

A language instructor was explaining to her class that in French, nouns,
unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as masculine
or feminine. "House", in French, is feminine "La Maison". "Pencil", in
French, is masculine, "Le Crayon". One puzzled student asked, "What gender
is a computer?". The teacher did not know, and the word was not in her
French dictionary. So for fun she split the class into two groups
appropriately enough, by gender, and asked them to decide whether "computer"
should be a masculine or feminine noun.
Both groups were required to give four reasons for their recommendation.
The men's group decided that computers should definitely be of the feminine
gender (La Computer"), because -
No one but their creator understands their internal
logic;
The native language they use to communicate with
other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;
Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long-term
memory for possible later retrieval;
As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find
yourself spending half your pay check on accessories for it.
The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine (Le
Computer), because -
In order to do anything with them, you have to turn
them on;
They have a lot of data but still can't think for
themselves;
They are supposed to help you solve problems, but
half the time they ARE the problem;
As soon as you commit to one, you realise that if
you had waited a little longer, you could have gottten a better model.
The Women won.