Are Computers Men or Women?

Has this one been archived yet? I couldn't find it using a keyword search on the Snopes site.

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A language teacher 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 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 a feminine
noun.
Both groups were required to give four reasons for their recommendation.
The men's group decided that computer should definitely be of the
feminine gender ("la computer"), because
List of 4 items
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 review
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending
half your paycheque on accessories for it.
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The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine
"le computer") because:
List of 4 items
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. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they
ARE the problem
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realise that if you had waited a
little longer you could have gotten a better model.