Unlike English, Spanish and many

Unlike English, Spanish and many other languages have masculine and feminine nouns, which determine whether you say  for masculine or  for feminine.

So the committee divided into two groups to each come up with the best four arguments for computers to be thought of as having a particular gender.

Those in favor of using the masculine  said “computers are most like men for these reasons”:

Those in favor of the feminine  felt computers were most like women for the following reasons:

Needless to say, the committee came to no conclusion on a particular gender.