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FX Zombie Marco         Since: 03-24-06 Since last post: 3830 days Last activity: 3726 days |
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Is your computer male or female? As you are aware, ships have long been characterized as being female (e.g., "Steady as she goes", or "She's listing to starboard Captain!"). Recently, a group of computer scientists (all males) announced that computers should also be referred to as being female. Their reasons for drawing this conclusion follow:
However, another group of computer scientists (all female) think that computers should be referred to as if they were male. Their reasonsfollow:
EDIT: w00t 900th post. 1000 here I come (Last edited by FX on 08-20-06 05:28 PM) |
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01001000 Slow Ride Take It Easy  Since: 01-10-05 Since last post: 6527 days Last activity: 5877 days |
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Computers are masculine when using the French language. I know this is supposed to be a joke but I do like to be a smartass. (Last edited by HoboConductor on 08-20-06 05:20 PM) |
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie!  Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 934 days Last activity: 934 days |
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| In almost every other culture and language, except for American and British English where it has no gender and most of the Romantic languages where it is male, the computer is female.
In English, our objects don't really have a gender, but the only reason most object are referred to as female are because they are owned by males. Heterosexual males, that is. My car is male, because I said so. Most of everything I own is male. My computer has no gender, or is asexual, or has both genders. (Last edited by Zabuza on 08-20-06 07:30 PM) |
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venomouslobster Scarfy  Since: 05-03-05 From: california (knows how to party) Since last post: 6328 days Last activity: 5577 days |
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| My computer is a male deity of war and Oblivion (both game and concept) and he is called "The Jade Monkey". He glows blue with an internal azurescant fire! I must sacrifice to him three goats and an eighth grade girl every Nortonmas when the moon waxes full and the blood gods call to me! | |||
Elara Divine Mamkute Dark Elf Goddess Chaos Imp Penguins Fan Ms. Invisable  Since: 08-15-04 From: Ferelden Since last post: 100 days Last activity: 100 days |
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| I tend to refer to my computer as "it" generally... the only inanimate object that I tend to assign genders to are cars for some reason. Of course, lots of people do that, so at least I am not alone. | |||
WhiteRose Warrior Sailor Delerium Have you ever spent days and days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no ones ever eaten before? Like chicken and telephone ice cream?...Green mouse ice cream was the worst.  Since: 08-17-04 From: The Dreaming Since last post: 4452 days Last activity: 5156 days |
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| Personally I don't believe the computer has a gender. Instead, it has little gnomes of both genders living within it, awaiting for the right momments in which to cause your computer to break down. Elara knows this all to well from my last computer. | |||
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Since: 12-31-69 Since last post: 20049 days Last activity: 20049 days |
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| I decided a while ago that my computer is a dickgirl, and nobody can tell me otherwise.
All the features of a female computer, and the penis of a male computer. so yeah, i do believe that all computers have a gender, the gender though depends on the computer in question. and I'm not reall sure, my computer might actually just be female. |
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Cteno Super Shotgun Moderator Since: 01-11-05 Since last post: 92 days Last activity: 90 days |
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| I think that its up to the owner's interpretation. To me, its just neutral. It can really be anything, as venomouslobster had so elequently described his (I got a kick outta that one!).
Plus, its different depending on what computer you own. For example, a Windows computer with a plain white case is neutral, a suped-up power PC with a $200 case would most likely be a male, and a pink I-Mac with butterfly stickers all over it would most likely be a female. Of course, you could always just think about it as a place, like what WhiteRose had said, what with the gnomes living inside. But the most important thing of all is that this thread was for a joke, not for an actual discussion -- mostly for a quick read and laugh. But that also is up for interpretation, because this IS the Asylum after all. But what do I care in the first place. Basically ignore that last part, and for the computers' genders: make of it what you will. |
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Stitch Roy Koopa Holy crap, it is the RoboCoonie! Since: 08-20-04 From: California Since last post: 934 days Last activity: 934 days |
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| But, it is dependent on the owner. I mean, my work computer has no gender because I don't identify with it as mine. It's just a tool I use at work, a genderless object occupying my (shared) desk.
My laptops vary from male to female depending on how bitchy their operation is. Most of the laptops are female though, the Toughbook is the only male, I think. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 634 days Last activity: 442 days |
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| My computer is a mule; therefore, it doesn't matter what gender my computer is, it's not having any little versions of itself running around, pissing people off with its slow connection or processing skills. | |||
DSMagnum Woodsman  Since: 11-06-05 Since last post: 6172 days Last activity: 6117 days |
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My computer doesn't have a gender, only a race.  |
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venomouslobster Scarfy Since: 05-03-05 From: california (knows how to party) Since last post: 6328 days Last activity: 5577 days |
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| my computer also has gnomes, and in the darkness of night they climb to the highest dvd drive and hurl their enimies off the edge of the Jade Monkey, and sing for the appeasment of the blood gods...silly gnomes | |||
True Flight The One Since: 08-21-04 Since last post: 100 days Last activity: 100 days |
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| YOu know it's kind of sad you already heard this on a radio show. A "republican" radioshow to boot. But Johnboy and Billy are awesome anyway. | |||
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venomouslobster Scarfy Since: 05-03-05 From: california (knows how to party) Since last post: 6328 days Last activity: 5577 days |
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| *blinks at kite fly*
.....come again? i am sorry but i dont get the reference... |
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Katana Dark Wizard \"She said tonight...come on come on collide...see what I fire feels like..I bet its just like heaven.\"  Since: 08-15-04 From: Philadelphia, P.A. Since last post: 1555 days Last activity: 1372 days |
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My computer is a bastard. That's the word I seem to call it the most. Otherwise...never really thought about assigning a gender to my computer. O_o But...funny stuff there FX  |
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Déesse Sailor Déesse Mistress of Pink Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy  Since: 08-14-04 From: The Moon Since last post: 6565 days Last activity: 6296 days |
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Some people have way too much time on there hands 
It's a machine, whenever it mucks up I yell and scream at it, doesn't help the situation, but it calms me down. But if I had to give an answer, going by the things FX listed, I would defiantly say it’s a male |
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