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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Literally listened to a coworker whine a few days ago about Transformers (or some kids show featuring robots, idr) adding a character that's nonbinary. A robot character. It -the robot- didn't adhere to traditional gender roles, and is therefore 'woke' commie shit.

These people are allowed to vote...

[–] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I mean they are allowed to whine. As an Enby it's quite useful to know where the people whom you needn't bother getting to know particularly well are. That high pitched sound their brains make as they grind out another low effort opinion is annoying, granted.

[–] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Computers are female in Spanish and in English too, I suspect. It used to be a job mostly held by women.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

While it's either la computadora (female) or el computador (male) in Spanish, its der Computer (male) in German so I suspect it's based on the grammatical genus, as '-er' is a male suffix in Latin when nominalising a verb.

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

In Spain we call them el ordenador, so male too.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah, but it turns out that the men were better at getting paid doing it.

Probably a talent thing, right?

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago

computers are ladies! :]

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It’s earliest origin traces back to the 1640’s, I doubt many women were practicing it back than yet alone taught maths or anything.

[–] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Women actually did participate in maths quite a bit throughout history. While it's generally true that formal schooling was more limited and opportunities were rarer than for men in the same fields a keen mind was often seen as a thing best not wasted. The work generally disappears in footnotes of businesses and whatnot where wives were sort of unpaid appendages of their husbands endeavours where they participated wholly in many aspects of the work and were often in a bookkeeping role. Maths was not limited to the nobility and gentry though the mathematical rockstars all came out of the class. Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia was born in the 1640's and became a lecturer of Mathematics in Padua and was the first woman to be awarded a doctorate degree from a University.

The rates of literacy and numeracy are always more than you would think in these periods. The common folk needed those skills but for different stuff so they taught them in informal ways to each other and didn't tend to use them for flashy things like writing stories or coming up with new stuff because paper was an expense saved for important stuff you needed to record. Most of it was for legal and organizational purposes. A lot of samples don't tend to survive unless they were either for posterity or kept for sentimental reasons but we know that slates saw a lot of use day to day for regular business. Women were a resource of skilled labour that households could not afford to leave unoccupied and the idea of them in aggregate as limited to being brainless drudges isn't accurate.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Der Computer. It's male in German. Problem solved.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

LA computadora. It's a chick dude

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

El ordenador. Seems to be non binary

[–] Shou@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

A non-binary computer? Impossible! They work only in 1s and 0s!

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Definitely binary, but fluid.

[–] guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Un ordinateur. It's a guy my man

[–] Jeanschyso@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Computer is masculine in French, if anyone wanted to know, but then sometimes we call it a machine, which is feminine.

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Im straight. Therefore anything that makes me hard is a female. Therefore computers are female.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My Spanish people are totally screwed on this....LA Computadora- female. El ordenador - male. El archivero- male....etc. They're screwed.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Está todo muy claro. En España es el ordenador, en America es la computadora. Si viajas y traes tu ordenador, tu ordenador transiciona i se convierte en una trans-computadora

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Con todos esos transistores nuestros ordenadores de bosotros se no's estan traniformando en "con puta doras"

Es mucho muy cierto!

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok but does anyone know wtf is going on in the original pic?

[–] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looks like the 2003 Cat in the Hat movie 😵‍💫

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

We do not speak about that movie.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Every port on a computer I can think of is female except DB9, which is almost never used except as part of a chain of adapters. So obviously cables are male and the computers are female.

[–] 8uurg@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What about the plug for the PSU for the power cable from the wall socket?

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

You are right... Except for USB c powered systems of course, and arguably laptops.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Mine has male pegs for an external wifi antenna.